Leatherback turtles swimming tens of thousands of kilometres from Indonesia to Oregon, and Arctic terns traversing the planet from pole to pole. These migratory creatures, and others like them, pose a ...

A Swiss firm is on track to solve the conundrum of where to site industrial solar farms, by turning railways into power plants. Switzerland needs to boost solar energy output seven-fold by 2035 to ...

Renewables and EVs are keeping the net zero dream alive, said experts Reaching net zero emissions by 2050 just might be within grasp in the UK, ‘provided the government stays the course’, Climate ...

No toilets, expensive food of dubious quality, crowded housing. This was the reality for many in 1840s Britain. And it was set to get worse: cholera had already claimed the lives of 50,000 people in ...

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Hattie Hasan, founder of the National Register of Tradeswomen A digger operator in Yorkshire, a tree surgeon in the Midlands and a stonemason in Scotland are among the experts to feature on a national ...

1. EU emissions shrank (and China’s ‘may have peaked’) While the climate crisis came into ever sharper focus in 2024, emissions continued to rise – but not everywhere. Data published in October ...

Speaking of cancer treatment … Exercise can cut the risk of colon cancer patients dying from the disease by a third, according to a world-first trial that could transform cancer treatment globally.

New sickle cell drug hailed ‘lifechanging’ A new ‘lifechanging’ treatment for sickle cell disease has been approved by England’s health watchdog. Voxelotor, which is administered as a daily tablet, ...

1. Blues whales The world’s largest animal, the blue whale, has been spotted in “unprecedented numbers” in the waters around Antarctica – a sign that the critically endangered mammal could be staging ...

We can restart our computers with a simple ctrl-alt-delete, but how easy is it to do a full reset on a river? A year on from the completion of a three-year project on the National Trust’s Holnicote ...