Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
- Article
Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
- Article
Why are women more willing donors than men?
Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?
Catalogue
- Books
The uninhabitable earth : a story of the future / David Wallace-Wells.
Wallace-Wells, DavidDate: 2019- Books
American heat : ethical problems with the United States' response to global warming / Donald A. Brown.
Brown, Donald A., 1944-Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Man and climate / [cover, text and layout, Wolfgang Wiedlich ; translation Sarah Zimmer, Joachim Manthey].
Wiedlich, Wolfgang.Date: [1995]- Books
The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge / Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing.
Dow, Kirstin, 1963-Date: 2011- Books
Europeans' attitudes towards climate change : report.
Date: 2008