Animals are shapeshifting to survive rising temperatures George Edwards explains how some animals are adapting to the climatic warming of the Earth and draws on the scary truth that not all species will be able to adapt. A recent study published in the journal ‘Trends in Ecology and Evolution’, has revealed that animals are adapting […]
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A year on: Australian wildfires aftermath
Emma Watson takes a close look at how the Australian wildfires that took place last year have affected biodiversity
Ecological Grief: How Climate Change is Affecting our Mental Health
Erica Mannis visited a panel discussing the trauma that comes from monitoring the impact of global warming and deforestation.
You Won’t Bee-lieve It
Anyone who has seen Charlie Brooker’s dark anthology series will tell you that Black Mirror does an excellent job of mixing realism and Science Fiction concepts to create a world that, whilst technologically advanced, is still recognisably our own. Throughout the series Brooker addresses concepts such as the growing impact of social media on our […]
Our Fragile Earth: Massive mammals and Mass extinction
While a common misconception that ‘we are heading towards another mass extinction’ is often attached to the extent climate change is impacting species on earth, in truth we started down that dark path of extinction a long time ago. Before man first messed with the climate, when we first picked up tools and became the […]
Is the end of the world nearly here?
H uge catastrophes have occurred throughout history, some caused by the human race and others by the unforgiving hand of Mother Nature. But what could possibly wipe out the whole human race? And what is the chance of it happening over the next century? Unsurprisingly, the chance of humanity being wiped out by 2100 is very […]