The bizarre-looking dinosaur challenging what we know about the evolution of fingers

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs, which look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren’t just funny looking fossils. As my team’s new research shows, they can help us understand how…

Milly Mead, PhD student in Palaeontology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh • conversation
April 3, 2025 ~8 min

Greenland’s fossil fuel ban is up in the air after recent election

Fossil fuels are a dangerous way to secure the economic foundation of an independent Greenland.

Lukas Slothuus, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex • conversation
March 13, 2025 ~6 min


Ann Arbor’s sustainable energy utility aims to build the electric power grid of the future − alongside the old one

With the Trump administration prioritizing fossil fuels, cities and states will have to lead the way on clean energy.

Mike Shriberg, Professor of Practice & Engagement, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan • conversation
March 10, 2025 ~9 min

News article or big oil ad?

A sneaky form of advertising favoured by oil giants influences public opinion with climate action misperceptions, but researchers are studying potential

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 6, 2025 ~7 min

Plants struggled for millions of years after Earth’s worst climate catastrophe – new study

A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all time.

Chris Mays, Senior Curator, Palaeobotany, Natural History Museum Vienna • conversation
March 6, 2025 ~6 min

The US energy market has its troubles, though it may not be a ‘national emergency’

The US produces more oil today than any other country, and there is no clear emergency on the scale of the energy crises of the 1970s. But there are some causes for concern.

Seth Blumsack, Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State • conversation
March 5, 2025 ~10 min

How palaeontologists are uncovering dinosaur behaviour

If we struggle to work out what the whole animal looked like most of the time, how can we begin to piece together their lives and how they behaved?

David Hone, Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Queen Mary University of London • conversation
Feb. 26, 2025 ~6 min

Reducing carbon emissions from residential heating: A pathway forward

A new MIT study identifies steps that can lower not only emissions, but also costs, across the combined electric power and natural gas industries that now supply heating fuels.

Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative • mit
Feb. 19, 2025 ~12 min


Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract

Melting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living and working in Greenland.

Paul Bierman, Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment, Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Vermont • conversation
Feb. 19, 2025 ~11 min

How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future

Chickens, concrete, computers and clothes will leave a billion-year mark in the rocks.

Sarah Gabbott, Professor of Palaeontology, University of Leicester • conversation
Feb. 12, 2025 ~9 min

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