How a DIY worm farm can compost food scraps, paper or a whole kangaroo

Worms. I’ve got a few. I split my time between a small inner-city apartment in Sydney, Australia, and a wild property that was once a farm, before it was abandoned in the 1970s, four hours to the south. They are...

Stark photos show quest for profit cutting swathes through the Amazon

The myriad ways in which deforestation in the Amazon could deleteriously impact the climate aren’t a new revelation. In fact, climate scientists and activists have long been sounding alarms about protecting the rainforest. Yet the Brazilian government has recently relaxed environmental controls on several...

Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?

At dusk, the greatest migration of biomass on Earth unfolds through the oceans in near silence, largely unnoticed. Trillions of often tiny creatures – zooplankton, krill, lanternfish – rise in synchrony from the depths, drawn by blooms of phytoplankton in...