Fun fact: Indigenous peoples manage or influence lands that hold about 80% of Earth’s biodiversity, even though they represent only a small fraction of the world’s population. The New Environmental Stewards: Indigenous Knowledge in Conservation is about what those communities teach us about protecting nature—and why ignoring their voices is both foolish and costly. From …
Fun fact: nature delivers services worth an estimated US$150 trillion a year—roughly double the world’s GDP. That’s the scale of what we stand to lose when ecosystems collapse. Welcome to The Economics of Extinction, where we explore what happens to human lives, businesses, and whole economies when the buzz of bees, the protection of wetlands, …
Fun fact: it takes almost 1.9 million litres of water to produce just one tonne of lithium — enough water to fill nearly 760 average bathtubs! Welcome to The Green Energy Paradox, where our dream of clean solar panels, wind turbines, and electric cars hides a darker, messy reality. We need these technologies for a …
Here’s a fun fact: a single handful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are humans on Earth. That’s right—tiny bacteria, fungi, worms, insects, and roots are working overtime beneath our feet, often unnoticed but indispensable to life above ground. When I say, “The Secret Life Beneath Our Feet,” I’m not being poetic—I’m …
Here’s a fun fact: scientists estimate that Earth is home to nearly 8.7 million species, but we’ve only identified about 1.2 million of them. That means most of the life sharing this planet with us remains unnamed, unstudied, and unnoticed. Yet many of these species are already disappearing before we even know they exist. When …
Here’s a fun fact to start: did you know that about three-quarters (75 %) of the world’s flowering plants depend on animal pollinators like bees, butterflies, bats, flies, and birds — and similarly, roughly 35 % of our food crops rely on them to produce? The connection between pollinators and what ends up on our plates is …
Fun fact: In some cloud seeding experiments in India, scientists observed rainfall increases of nearly 46% under the right conditions. Delhi is no stranger to environmental crises. Smog thick enough to sting your eyes, taps running dry, groundwater vanishing into oblivion, and every winter a blanket of toxic haze that makes the World Health Organization’s …
Did you know there may be more fresh water hidden beneath the ocean floor than in all the world’s rivers combined? Yes, you read that right. While we argue over droughts, dam projects, and desalination plants, scientists have quietly discovered something extraordinary: secret aquifers of fresh water locked beneath the seabed, stretching for hundreds of …
Did you know that some of the most fertile farmland in the world sits on volcanic soil? The same mountains that once buried towns in ash and lava are the reason rice fields in Indonesia and vineyards in Italy thrive today. That paradox—the way volcanoes destroy and yet create—is the heartbeat of this story. We’re …
Did you know that a single ant colony can stretch across thousands of kilometres, making it one of the largest “organisms” on Earth? Welcome to The Secret Social Lives of Ants, Trees, and Fungi—a story that forces us to rethink what “society” really means. We often reserve the word for humans, imagining cities, WhatsApp groups, …
