EnvironmentHow the ‘blue acceleration’ is supercharging ocean exploitation From deep-sea mining to industrial-scale fishing, human activities in the oceans are expanding massively in a realm where few rules apply. Only now are we grappling with how to regulate the rush to plunder the seas Features
EarthHalf of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene The biomass of living organisms on the planet has halved since human civilisation began, and humans now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold News