Understanding the ‘Slopocene’: how the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings
What if instead of trying to detect and avoid AI glitches, we deliberately encouraged them instead?
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Wild souls and irreverent humour enliven these timely award‑winning books
Read together, these very different books ask a question: do we have to choose between hope for the future and accepting life in all its bizarre banality?
As human population grows, people and wildlife will share more living spaces around the world
As the world’s population grows, contact between humans and wildlife will increase in more than half of Earth’s land areas. A new study shows where the largest changes will occur.
When wolves move in, they push smaller carnivores closer to human development – with deadly consequences
Reintroducing wolves can restore important ecological processes, but it can have unintended effects when smaller predators like coyotes are driven closer to people, a team of ecologists found.
The quest to revive extinct Aurochs to restore ancient lands
Bringing back aurochs is a competitive and ambitious venture aiming at recreating wilderness in Europe. But ethical and scientific questions linger.
We train Colombian woolly monkeys to be wild again – and maybe save them from extinction
Colombian researchers hope to revive an endangered species by rehabilitating monkeys confiscated from smugglers. The captive animals’ struggles show that survival is not guaranteed.
The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Don’t blame climate change for the 39,000 forest fires now incinerating huge tracts of the Brazilian Amazon. This environmental catastrophe is human-made and highly political.
Should we move Tasmanian Devils back to the mainland?
In almost all parts of the world our environment is under siege and we are losing the battle to save many species from extinction. The most common threats behind this unfolding catastrophe are habitat…
Our unsung farm dams provide vital habitat to threatened species of frogs
Australia has almost 1.8 million farm dams – and some are home to threatened frog species
Madagascar: giant tortoises have returned 600 years after they were wiped out
Re-wilding Madagascar with giant tortoises last found on the island 600 years ago could help the island mitigate climate change.
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