All environment articles
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OpinionJames Lovelock, a gentleman scientist
Philip Ball reflects on the legacy of the creator of the Gaia hypothesis, who has died aged 103
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Opinion
From prebiotic soup to fine-grained RNA world
Theories about how life emerged need to be closely attuned to conditions on the early Earth
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Opinion
Bringing citizen science into school – and to the beach
A coastal project to contextualise concerns about pollutants and microplastics
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Podcast
Book club – Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez
An Indigenous vision for environmental science
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Sponsored
Nitto’s hydranautics membrane technology makes seawater drinkable
How reverse osmosis membrane technology is being used to fulfill 100% of a city’s fresh water needs
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Opinion
How does your garden grow?
With the help of a handful elements from the periodic table, of course
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Opinion
Letters: March 2022
Readers produce a model view of June Lindsay’s work, and describe a creative use of parafilm
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Opinion
Najat Saliba: ‘The Beirut explosion is a crime like no other’
The atmospheric chemist who dared to dream big and returned home to Beirut to become an environmental activist
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Opinion
Zafra Lerman: ‘I used art, music, dance, drama, poetry, animation, anything’
The influential science diplomat on teaching chemistry through the arts and doing almost impossible things
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Careers
The conference conundrum
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, is it time to rethink events for good?
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Opinion
Letters: December 2021
Readers discuss the environment and greener fuels, and speculate on chemistry’s role in the first world war
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Opinion
A red pill for green medicines
The pharmaceutical industry is taking action towards net zero
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Opinion
Rethinking our relationship to nature
How the scientific revolution made it culturally permissible to exploit the environment
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Careers
How to run a sustainable chemistry lab
A lot of research focuses on sustainability and climate change – but how much thought is put into making research itself more sustainable?
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Opinion
Letters: July 2021
Readers discuss whether air rifles or bomb disposal techniques are best for dealing with waste chemicals
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Opinion
The citizen scientists searching for slime moulds
Exploring the beauty and diversity hidden in a small Australian rainforest
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Research
Plastic waste upcycled to high-value chemicals in one-pot process
Polyethylene chains are broken down and aromatised to produce valuable alkylaromatic products
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Careers
How chemo-ethnography puts chemistry in context
New social science fields are exploring how chemists and chemicals affect society
