Environment

Fancy some bush tucker with your wonky fruit? The revolution happening in our food system

With the world population heading towards nine billion, we need some clever thinking and revolutionary change to tackle the urgent issues of food supply and food waste. The (food) revolution starts now.

A bright green comet, last seen during the Stone Age, will be visible next week

The dazzling sight will pass by the Earth for the first time in 50,000 years.

Extinction crisis puts 1 million species on the brink

Nature is in crisis, and it’s only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink.

How Kings Plant Barn’s eco initiatives help Kiwis achieve their sustainability goals

Auckland’s burgeoning suburb of Stonefields welcomes a groundbreaking new garden centre that is reimagining the plant-buying experience, with sustainability at the heart of its thoughtful design.

12 awe-inspiring images captured by NASA’s James Webb telescope

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has given the world a new window into the universe, revealing breathtaking images of far-off planets, colliding galaxies and cosmic cliffs.

Get ready, a spectacular meteor shower is hitting our skies in the next few days

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… not because Christmas is coming, but because it’s time for the Geminid meteor shower – an annual spectacle to bring joy and good cheer to all!

See the stunning winning images of the Northern Lights Photographer of the Year

For its fifth annual edition, Capture the Atlas celebrates the most remarkable photographs featuring the Northern Lights.

Earthshot Prize: Five winners that will help solve major environmental problems

Climate change is one of the greatest threats ever to face humanity. With mounting storms, fires, floods and droughts and the annual disappointment of international negotiations, it’s easy to despair about how bad the future climate will be. But exciting work is being done to find solutions. This is where the Prince of Wales’s Earthshot prize makes a difference.

Sunflowers: A golden bullseye

Sunflowers are more than just a bright and pretty face.

An entire Pacific country will upload itself to the metaverse. It’s a desperate plan – with a hidden message

The Pacific nation of Tuvalu is planning to create a version of itself in the metaverse, as a response to the existential threat of rising sea levels.

A total lunar eclipse is set to dazzle tomorrow – along with some other stellar sights

Tomorrow evening people across Australia and New Zealand will be treated to a total lunar eclipse, weather permitting. It’s an opportunity to not be missed, as the next one won’t be visible from our region until 2025.

The CLEAR Mission: Satellite removes junk from Space

A UK-based mission will be among the first to begin removing junk from space, grabbing it with a huge claw and moving it into an orbit that will see it burn up in the atmosphere.

‘Forever chemicals’ are everywhere – here’s what you need to know about them

Whether you’ve heard of them before or not, “forever chemicals” are all around us. Stain-resistant carpets, non-stick pans, mascara and even some food packaging all contain these chemicals.

Q&A: Ethique founder Brianne West on solid beauty bar myths and saving 23m bottles from landfill

Ethique founder Brianne West created her company 10 years ago, hoping to move the needle on beauty’s plastic waste problem. […]

2022’s supercharged summer of climate extremes: How global warming and La Niña fuelled disasters on top of disasters

There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a bucket of ice water and the right in a bucket of hot water, so that his overall temperature is average. That seemed to apply to the climate during 2022’s northern summer of extremes.

‘Sad and distressing’: massive numbers of bird deaths in Australian heatwaves reveal a profound loss is looming

Heatwaves linked to climate change have already led to mass deaths of birds and other wildlife around the world. To stem the loss of biodiversity as the climate warms, we need to better understand how birds respond.

Watch the incredible moment NASA crashes a spacecraft into an asteroid

The space agency has successfully conducted its first “planetary defence test”.

Prince William asks Jacinda Ardern to stand in for him at Earthshot Prize in New York

A request from the Prince of Wales was accepted by the self-proclaimed ‘exceptionally poor substitute’.

La Niña, 3 years in a row: a climate scientist on what flood-weary Australians can expect this summer

After weeks of anticipation, it’s finally official: the Bureau of Meteorology has declared another La Niña is underway. This means Australia’s east coast will likely endure yet another wet, and relatively cool, spring and summer.

In Spain, weavers reuse shopping bags to shield from sun

The sun beats down on the narrow streets of the Spanish village of Valverde de la Vera, filtered through multi-coloured shades made out of plastic shopping bags and the remains of old advertising billboards.

Noise pollution is hurting animals – and we don’t even know how much

From construction projects to busy roads, aeroplanes and railways, human noise is everywhere. It is an invisible cause of stress, posing serious risks to human health and wellbeing. However, noise also harms animals living in close contact with humans, in homes, farms and zoos.

‘Spanish Stonehenge’ emerges from drought-hit dam

A brutal summer has caused havoc for many in rural Spain, but one unexpected side-effect of the country’s worst drought in decades has delighted archaeologists – the emergence of a prehistoric stone circle in a dam whose waterline has receded.

Low-cost solution to energy insecurity

New research from Stanford University Professor Mark Jacobson outlines how 145 countries could meet 100% of their business energy needs with renewable sources including wind, water, solar and energy storage.

Hotter summers mean Florida’s turtles are mostly born female

Florida’s sea turtles are grappling with a gender imbalance made worse by climate change. Recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly every turtle born was female.

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