Peter Forbes

Peter Forbes is is a science writer whose work has appeared in New Scientist, The Guardian, The Times, Scientific American and New Statesman, among others. His latest book, co-authored with Tom Grimsey, is Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal (2014). He lives in London.

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Written by Peter Forbes

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Ecology and environmental sciences

We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal

Peter Forbes

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The environment

Sunshine in a bottle

Mimic the dance between carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and you can tap into clean solar energy and ease climate change

Peter Forbes