The Great Acceleration

Rising demands for food, water and materials have pushed resources to the limit and at the same time waste is piling high - triggering a new wave of innovation to make more out of less.

Discoveries over the past fifty years have revealed a new picture of a dynamic and rapidly changing planet, above the crust and below.

From filling in the missing links to creating a new species, in the last fifty years scientists have solved some of the biggest mysteries of evolution.