Jane Goodall is a primatologist who is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on chimpanzees. She has spent 60 years studying the chimps…
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Child labour, toxic leaks: the price we could pay for a greener future
The battle to stave off Earth’s looming climate crisis is driving engineers to develop hosts of new green technologies. Wind and solar plants are set…
View More Child labour, toxic leaks: the price we could pay for a greener futureAnimals and plants reclaim Scotland’s abandoned spaces: photo essay
Since the idea of rewilding took hold, it has generally been seen as a rural pursuit involving withdrawal from farmland so that animals and vegetation…
View More Animals and plants reclaim Scotland’s abandoned spaces: photo essay‘The sea is rising, the climate is changing’: the lessons learned from Mozambique’s deadly cyclone
The tree had stood in the square for nearly 100 years. It was planted by his father, before Afonso Reis was born. He worked as…
View More ‘The sea is rising, the climate is changing’: the lessons learned from Mozambique’s deadly cycloneHopes for most endangered turtle after discovery of female in Vietnam lake
The last known male giant Swinhoe’s softshell turtle is no longer alone on the planet after the discovery of a female of his species in…
View More Hopes for most endangered turtle after discovery of female in Vietnam lake‘The litter was a shock’: 2020’s Covid-driven rush on UK national parks
For some years, Britain’s national parks have been wrestling with the same conundrum: how to attract a broader range of visitors. This summer, they got…
View More ‘The litter was a shock’: 2020’s Covid-driven rush on UK national parks‘It’s awakened me’: UK climate assembly participants hail a life-changing event
At the start of 2020, Sue Peachey could never have predicted how her life would change over the next 12 months. She was one of…
View More ‘It’s awakened me’: UK climate assembly participants hail a life-changing eventAmid 2020’s gloom, there are reasons to be hopeful about the climate in 2021 | John Sauven
In a world rife with disputes and divisions, there will be one emotion likely to unite most people at the stroke of midnight on 31…
View More Amid 2020’s gloom, there are reasons to be hopeful about the climate in 2021 | John Sauven‘A critical time’: how Covid-19 piled the pressure on conservation efforts
From the Nepalese Himalayas where tigers patrol the snowy peaks to the lush forest homes of mountain gorillas in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
View More ‘A critical time’: how Covid-19 piled the pressure on conservation effortsFloods, storms and searing heat: 2020 in extreme weather
This year has broken a series of unwelcome weather records. Last month was the warmest November in history. This followed the hottest January, May and…
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