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Nature & Environment
Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Many of us are culprits when it comes to buying more clothes than we can possibly wear, but what harm could it do? Guest author Natalie Dukes explains her research into female attitudes towards the notion of buying fewer garments for sustainability.
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Nature & Environment
Mass production and the consequent devaluation of our clothes
What effect has mass production had on the way we see our clothes? Dr Patsy Perry discusses how our outlook has changed over time.
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Nature & Environment
The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators
The Hunt's academic consultants and OU lecturers Miranda Dyson and Vicky Taylor look at the remarkable strategies predators and prey deploy...
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Science, Maths & Technology
What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?
If your office is anything like the OpenLearn one, you'll be generating a load of waste coffee grounds everyday. Maybe we shouldn't be throwing it all away...
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Nature & Environment
Make your clothes count
With the fifth-biggest environmental footprint of any UK industry there is no doubt that making the clothing industry more sustainable is imperative. Sarah Clayton, Head of Products & Services at WRAP, explains more.
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Science, Maths & Technology
How Volkswagen got caught cheating emissions tests by a clean air NGO
There are stormy times ahead for the German company as the emissions scandal unfolds.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time
Alexandre Rodrigues discusses how we can balance saving our most popular form of transportation and the planet we live on at the same time.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Strange coloured teeth; strange coloured bones
Are bones and teeth always white? Not always...
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Science, Maths & Technology
Do sperm whales speak with local accents?
A survey suggests that sperm whale culture might be surprisingly elaborate - and that whales have regional dialects.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems
The reintroduction of lions to Rwanda after twenty years might seem like a conversation success story - but it's a little more compliacted, explains Laura Bertola.
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History & The Arts
A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
After nearly a century, the BBC has announced it's looking for a new weather partner. That's bad news for the Met Office.
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Nature & Environment
Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
Researchers have developed a new battery to enable user generated renewable power to be stored cheaply and safely, reports Tim Radford from the Climate News Network.