At a climate summit this fall, Bill Gates sparked controversy by dismissing tree planting as a climate crisis solution, calling it “complete nonsense.” To many, this may seem shocking. But the real issue stems from the misconception that ecosystem restoration is the same as mass ‘tree planting’. If you are like so many children who…

As much as 60-70% of the bacteria found in nature are resistant to antibiotics in Bangladesh, according to a study. The comprehensive study conducted by the Microbiology Department of Jahangirnagar University (JU) revealed the alarming trends in antibiotic resistance among bacteria in natural environments. The findings, presented at a seminar titled “One Health Assessment of…

Lindy Orwin pulls a long-horned beetle in a petri dish out of her handbag and plonks it on the table in front of me. Clipped to my phone is one essential tool in the citizen scientist’s armoury – a macro lens which costs less than $30, but which is powerful enough to reveal the insect’s…

Nature loss and the climate crisis are locked in a vicious cycle. These two issues are separate yet inextricably linked. As the climate crisis escalates, natural habitats are being destroyed. This in turn exacerbates the climate crisis and loss of wildlife. Here are 10 ways the two issues are connected: 1 Wildfires destroy ecosystems Uncontrollable…

Want to see a troublemaking penguin? What about a startling starling murmuration? A curious lion cub? A very very sleepy polar bear? Well, you, dear reader, have lucked out. All of the above appear in the shortlist for the Natural History Museum’s annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice awards. But which picture is…

On the outskirts of Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, nestled among car dealerships and hardware shops, sits a two-storey factory stuffed with solar-power secrets. It’s here where UK firm Oxford PV is producing commercial solar cells using perovskites: cheap, abundant photovoltaic (PV) materials that some have hailed as the future of green energy. Surrounded by…

Abstract Novel functional materials enable fundamental breakthroughs across technological applications from clean energy to information processing1,<a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" title="Mizushima, K., Jones, P., Wiseman, P. & Goodenough, J. B. LixCoO2 (0<x2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11. From microchips to batteries and photovoltaics, discovery of inorganic crystals has been bottlenecked by expensive trial-and-error approaches. Concurrently, deep-learning models for language,…

Abstract To determine the effects of gamma radiation on the melanization process and phenoloxidase activity, Ephestia cautella larvae were exposed to dosages of 200, 400, 600, 800, and 1000 Gy. After irradiation, the number of non melanized larvae and the number exhibiting a slight melanization usually increased. The degree of melanization in treated larvae differed significantly…