martin oliver

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way we live and work, offering groundbreaking advancements alongside significant ethical and societal concerns. From revolutionising healthcare and scientific research to raising questions about privacy, creativity, bias and the environment, AI sparks both excitement and apprehension.

Explore synthetic foods: precision fermentation, lab-grown meat, and their environmental impact. Benefits and concerns.

A burgeoning movement in nature conservation, rewilding can restore degraded ecosystems and reshape landscapes by fostering biodiversity.

Here, we explore if the various types of geoengineering under consideration are too much of a risk to contemplate.

In the face of escalating living expenses and economic uncertainty, embracing mutual-aid initiatives and community-driven solutions can alleviate financial strain and foster resilience in times of need.

In some instances, imprisonment is a tool of punishment that serves neither an offender nor society. Around the world more productive ways are being sought as ways to deal with perpetrators of crime.

Mining our ocean depths for minerals to power a clean energy economy is being touted as a more sustainable method than land-based mining. Yet there are also critics of the marine method, so what is the truth about deep-sea mining?

Doughnut Economics is an alternative model with sustainability and social parameters at its centre, so it could hold the key to the future.

Many solutions are being promoted for tackling climate change. They range through planting trees to wind power and soil carbon sequestration. Yet one of the most promising is found in the ocean rather than on land. It involves the growing, and sometimes harvesting, of seaweed.