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Scientists develop a plastic that dissolves at sea. As delegates arrived in South Korea to thrash out a UN treaty to cut plastic pollution, Japanese researchers this week hailed a new “environmentally ...

We’re launching with a six-part series called Developing Mental Wealth, which uncovers the fascinating ways that communities are dealing with mental health issues in parts of the world where ...

You might be blown away to know that the tiny house pictured used to stand 100 metres in the air as a major part of a wind turbine. With an average lifespan of 20 to 25 years, estimates based on ...

Efforts to improve access to electricity in developing nations are bearing fruit, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), published in October. It found that the number of ...

Namibia is the driest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, and home to two of the world’s most ancient deserts, the Kalahari and the Namib. The capital, Windhoek, is sandwiched between them, 400 miles away ...

Countries struck a deal to tackle shipping emissions . It’s taken a decade to achieve, and many nations are underwhelmed with the result, but this week countries struck a historic deal to reduce the ...

Coal. It powered the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain. So it was hugely symbolic this week when the UK became the first advanced economy to quit the black stuff. Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the ...

A treaty to safeguard the world’s high seas has been ratified by the EU, a move that Greenpeace said was “welcome”. Amid much fanfare, 115 countries signed up to the UN global ocean treaty in 2023.

The UK’s factories were the engine rooms of the Industrial Revolution, introducing the world to new ways of working, making and consuming. Can two ‘fixing factories’ in London help do the same for the ...

Zurich – Switzerland’s sleek financial capital – has been hailed the world’s best example of a 15-mintute city. According to a new study, 99.2% of its residents live within a 15-minute walk of key ...

So it’s bitterly ironic that such Indigenous wisdom was swept aside last century. Rather than pausing to consider why people who’d lived in and with the landscape for generations might choose to set ...