Land of Plenty
By Ana Santi
With nearly a quarter of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions due to agriculture, forestry and other land use – making it...
Queen Bee
By Ana Santi
The year is 2031. Two friends, Steve and Tina, enter a café. Smiling at the waiter, Tina orders an oat...
Fixing the Ozone Hole
By Khandiz Joni
Stratospheric ozone depletion, one of the nine planetary boundaries, is, fortunately, one boundary that we are still within a relatively safe zone “of linear behaviour for global ozone loss“. In the late 1970s, scientists discovered a huge hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. This hole – a potential earth-systems...
Every Breath We Take, Every Plastic We Make
with Dr Imogen Napper, as told by Ana Santi
New research from the University of Plymouth examines the release of plastic microfibres into the environment. One of its researchers,...
A New Frontier
By Khandiz Joni
A short story about action vs inaction in a new frontier from human accelerated climate change. A scenario of...
Breaking Waters
By Ana Santi
There is a body of freshwater in Fraser Island, off the coast of eastern Australia, that, unless you see it, you’d think was the work of Instagram filters. Lake McKenzie is incredible. But it’s real; I’ve been there. And it remains, 20 years later, one of the most beautiful places...
A Blooming Catastrophe
By Khandiz Joni
Algal Blooms: What Causes Them, Their Impact on us, and Ways we can Reduce their Damage Like human organs, the...
Water
A story about collaboration, by Gwyn Jones
It was always going to be about relationships and context. I realise that now. Khandiz – the artist, brought her...