Science
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Dominion
To take care of the Earth, humans must recognise that we are both a part of the animal kingdom and its dominant power
Hugh Desmond
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The environment
Decoupling
We need to find a way for human societies to prosper while the planet heals. So far we can’t even think clearly about it
Ville Lähde
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Earth science and climate
The only man permitted in Bhutan’s sacred mountains chronicles humanity’s impact
22 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
The ancient Hawaiian myth that sparked a modern ecological breakthrough
10 minutes
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Deep time
When algae met fungi – the hidden story of life’s most successful partnership
4 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
From helicopter flybys to trail cameras, there’s no one way to count a wolf
8 minutes
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Nature and landscape
Take a serene hike through an ancient forest, inspired by a Miyazaki masterpiece
6 minutes
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Biology
To understand how an animal sees the world, start with the shape of its pupils
5 minutes
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The environment
Tree-sit with activists as they fight industrial logging from 100 feet above the ground
25 minutes
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Animals and humans
Scientists brought a wild horse back from extinction. But is it truly the same animal?
5 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
The grassroots project that’s restoring an endangered Hawaiian ecosystem
22 minutes
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Thinkers and theories
Is simulation theory a way to shirk responsibility for the world we’ve created?
13 minutes
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Architecture
Modern architecture should embrace – not ignore or repel – the nonhuman world
8 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
In an ancient English rainforest, John creates charcoal and cultivates growth
12 minutes
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Environmental history
Disturbance
How atomic doomsday experiments, fuelled by Cold War fears, shaped then shook ecologists’ faith in self-healing nature
Laura J Martin
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Biology
The idea that life on Earth originated elsewhere is not as far out as it seems
6 minutes
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Biology
Flicker through the eclectic beauty and biological diversity of 2,400 leaves
3 minutes
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Nature and landscape
Home and the birdsong
In the dark, sylvan villages of medieval England, people named places after the birds that filled the night with music
Michael J Warren
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Knowledge
Yes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow – but what does each one mean exactly?
6 minutes
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Oceans and water
Tomorrow’s corals
A warming planet and acid oceans will radically transform marine ecosystems. How will our beloved reefs survive?
Klaus M Stiefel & James D Reimer
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Deep time
Mutual entrapment
As Neolithic people transformed prehistoric forests, they stumbled into an ecological trap. Domestication goes both ways
Mette Løvschal
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Producing food while restoring the planet – a glimpse of farming in the future
7 minutes
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Yo-Yo Ma performs a work for cello in the woods, accompanied by a birdsong chorus
4 minutes
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Anthropology
Keeping our options open
Frantic human activity has reduced both cultural and biological diversity. Now we must protect the dwindling alternatives
Thomas Hylland Eriksen