When Olivia Besters began caring for the patch of soil beneath the chestnut tree outside her home in Freiburg, Germany, more than 35 years ago, biodiversity was not on her…
Heatwaves in the United Kingdom, vast forest fires in Canada and flash flooding in Nepal – the evidence of climate change is everywhere. And no region faces a more existential…
Amid an unending heatwave in contemporary Wales – and increasingly violent weather around the world – a psychological thriller unfolds. Two years after an accident that killed her husband and…
Jason Edwards/Getty Published: September 23, 2026 9:58pm EDT Almost 11,000 kilometres. That’s how far one white shark swam while travelling from South Africa to Western Australia, before turning around and…
In a waterfront settlement in Lagos, Nigeria, I watched from the shoreline as two men worked a stretch of lagoon from their canoe. One held the boat steady. The other…
In 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico with maximum sustained winds of 250 kilometres an hour. It devastated communities and infrastructure, was associated with nearly 3,000 deaths and…
Overfishing and poor enforcement are just two reasons marine ecosystems are struggling to recover...Read More
The world is bracing for the strongest El Niño in history. The United Nations has made the grim prediction that our planet now sits in the “danger zone” of extreme…
Over the summer, Europe provided a stark new set of images of climate change. Wildfires raced across forests and grasslands, rivers and reservoirs dried up in droughts and extreme heat…