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A very complex disturbance

January 14, 2019
Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actually influence natural selection doesn’t seem controversial. But the truth could well be...

Chachani mountain

January 8, 2019
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission snapped this image of the Chachani mountain in Peru. Standing at over 6000m, Chachani is the tallest of the mountains near the Peruvian city of Arequipa.

The Colours of Iron

December 11, 2018
'The Colours of Iron' (Lochaber, Scotland) by Ursula Lawrence took the third place) in the Geological society's 2018 Earth Science Week photography competition, 'Earth Science in our Lives.'

Understanding battleground earth

November 8, 2018
Falk Hildebrand takes through the first global study of the soil microbiome. This incredible international effort uncovered worrying human impact, antibiotic production and one hell of a microbial battle. You’ll...

The fat of the land

October 19, 2018
Evidence for environmental chemicals as disruptors of metabolism is mounting ­– now a new study suggests a worrying link between fracking and the growth of fat cells. Dr Christopher Kassotis...

Getting the right exposure

September 6, 2018
Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do to our health. That is the ambition of exposomics and it is an incredibly tough undertaking...

Hey big spender…

June 11, 2018
Given the clear link between climate change and violent human conflict isn’t it obvious we should spend less on military funding and more on environmental science? Well, certainly says Dr...

Turning to extremes

May 21, 2018
A taste for pollution, extremophilic cooperation, and genetic clustering – a deep dive into the molecular biology of a rather special fungus led one group of researchers to a few...

A pocket full of pretty green

April 18, 2018
Cleaning up industrial heavy metal pollution, revitalising polluted waterways and a new source of gold, can moss really hold the key to all this? You bet says king of the...

Mosquito larva

April 5, 2018
This image of Mosquito larva gave Charles Krebs of Issaquah in Washington image of distinction in the 43rd annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.

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