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Heartstopper is a celebration of ‘queer joy’ that uses the imaginative intimacy of graphic novels to invite the reader into its tight-knit world.
A recently discovered palm tree has an unusual survival strategy - it flowers and fruits beneath the ground
The UN climate conference brought some progress. A former UN official who has been involved in international climate policy for years explains what has to happen now for that progress to pay off.
Even with rapid reductions in emissions, we will still need to adapt to a harsher climate.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell bristles at talk of managing climate change, but the damage it is doing the US economy is hard to ignore, as the latest National Climate Assessment shows.
Nintendo doesn’t have the best track record of turning their games into successful screen iterations.
From dark dragonflies becoming paler to plants flowering earlier, some species are slowly evolving with the climate. Evolutionary biologists explain why few will evolve fast enough.
Climate denial is passe. But why do so many of us know the climate crisis is upon us – and live like it isn’t?
Rapidly changing temperatures and sensory environments are challenging the nervous systems of many species. Animals will be forced to evolve to survive.
As global warming accelerates, a new study indicates that new trading patterns could develop as an adaptation strategy.
In every Australian city, you’re likely to come across a warbling magpie. How do they cope with the onslaught of noise? It turns out, the smarter ones cope better.
This adaptation is set in Bengal in 1899, where rumours that the British Empire’s plans for partition have spread.
A new report explores options for managing the period after global warming exceeds 1.5°C. This is called ‘climate overshoot’, because we’re pushing past the safe zone into dangerous climate change.
Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, the enormously successful Japanese manga and anime franchise, brings the series to a truly global audience.
Audiences are essentially paying Sony for the privilege of watching an extended advert.
A world without pastoralists would not only be a poorer place, but we would lose an important lifeline to our collective future.
As the world gets hotter, fish are getting smaller. The future of aquatic ecosystems – and fisheries – could depend on understanding how and why it’s happening.
Human activities can affect plants and have consequences for the human populations that consume them.
The book is a hard read and some say the play is an even harder watch - is it just trauma porn?
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