What’s at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the climate depend on a healthy Arctic, too.

Mariah Meek, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University • conversation
June 30, 2025 ~11 min

What dinosaur fossils could teach us about cancer

Dinosaur fossils aren’t just relics of the past – they’re guides to the future.

Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University • conversation
June 16, 2025 ~7 min


How pterosaurs can inspire aircraft design

Looking back in time could inspire the aircraft innovations of the future.

Michael Habib, Adjunct Professor, Biology, College of the Canyons • conversation
June 13, 2025 ~10 min

Rosebank oilfield: why more UK oil means more global emissions

It’s a myth that producing oil with lower upstream emissions benefits the climate.

Fergus Green, Associate Professor in Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL • conversation
June 10, 2025 ~9 min

Ancient fossils show how the last mass extinction forever scrambled the ocean’s biodiversity

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

Stewart Edie, Research Geologist and Curator of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution • conversation
June 10, 2025 ~10 min

A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy

MIT researchers’ new membrane separates different types of fuel based on their molecular size, eliminating the need for energy-intensive crude oil distillation.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
May 22, 2025 ~8 min

Ancient pollen reveals stories about Earth’s history, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs to the Mayan collapse

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Linus Victor Anyanna, Graduate Research Assistant in Geology, Missouri University of Science and Technology • conversation
May 20, 2025 ~10 min

Overshooting 1.5°C: even temporary warming above globally agreed temperature limit could have permanent consequences

Even allowing warming to exceed 1.5°C for a few decades could trigger irreversible damage.

Paul Dodds, Professor of Energy Systems, UCL • conversation
May 19, 2025 ~9 min


‘Energy security’ is being used to justify more fossil fuels – but this will only make us less secure

A global summit in London is set to decide on a new definition of energy security.

Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex • conversation
April 23, 2025 ~6 min

Tiny cut marks on animal bone fossils reveal that human ancestors were in Romania 1.95 million years ago

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.

Virgil Drãgușin, Senior Scientist at the Emil Racoviță Institute of Speleology, Academia Română • conversation
April 11, 2025 ~9 min

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