Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.
An excess of single-use plastics — accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic — is plain to everyone. Also obvious is that “for all of the toxicity and pollution associated with plastic, it is difficult to imagine living without it”, writes sociologist Alice Mah in her lively and sophisticated study. Chapters deal with plastic toxicity, marine waste, the climate emergency, the pandemic and the cumulative plastics crisis.
”This highly illustrated history of life by palaeontologist Elsa Panciroli vivifies 47 plants and animals, starting 2.5 billion years ago with early eukaryotes — the group that includes most multicellular organisms — and ending with humans. The reader meets corals and graptolites, earthworms and dinosaurs, ants and woolly mammoths.
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