The Covid-19 pandemic will “look minor” compared with what humanity faces from the growing number of superbugs resistant to current drugs, Prof Dame Sally Davies,…
View More Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warnsTag: Global development
‘I’m happy we’re not killing them any more’: Ireland’s last basking shark hunter on the return of the giants
The ambush was simple. A spotter on a hill would scan the sea and when he saw the big black fins approach, he would shout…
View More ‘I’m happy we’re not killing them any more’: Ireland’s last basking shark hunter on the return of the giantsUN names veteran EU official Astrid Schomaker as new biodiversity chief
The next UN biodiversity chief will be Astrid Schomaker, an EU civil servant who will be entrusted with helping the world confront the ongoing catastrophic…
View More UN names veteran EU official Astrid Schomaker as new biodiversity chief‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?
In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have…
View More ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?Financial toll of climate crisis hitting women harder, UN says
Women in rural areas suffer substantially greater economic losses from the impacts of climate breakdown than men in developing countries, research has shown, and the…
View More Financial toll of climate crisis hitting women harder, UN saysDeath toll rises to seven in Malawi elephant relocation project linked to Prince Harry NGO
Four more people have died after an elephant translocation overseen by two wildlife organisations, including one that was headed by Prince Harry, in a protected…
View More Death toll rises to seven in Malawi elephant relocation project linked to Prince Harry NGOHow rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants
When enslaved Africans escaped the Surinamese plantations overseen by Dutch colonists from the 17th to the 19th century, several women ingeniously hid rice grains in…
View More How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendantsTories urged to end ‘idiotic’ £1.8bn tax break for UK fishing fleet
The government needs to urgently end polluting tax breaks for the UK fishing fleet that threaten to “empty the ocean of fish”, say conservationists, after…
View More Tories urged to end ‘idiotic’ £1.8bn tax break for UK fishing fleetFormer world leaders seek $25bn levy on oil states’ revenues to pay for climate damage
The bumper revenues of oil-producing states should be subject to a $25bn levy to help pay for the impact of climate disasters on the world’s…
View More Former world leaders seek $25bn levy on oil states’ revenues to pay for climate damage‘We can’t carry on’: the godfather of microplastics on how to stop them
In September 1993, during a beach clean on the Isle of Man, Richard Thompson noticed thousands of multicoloured fragments at his feet, looking like sand.…
View More ‘We can’t carry on’: the godfather of microplastics on how to stop them