Hospital appointments can make greener travel harder
The timing of a hospital appointment does more than tell you when to see a doctor. It can also shape how you get there. For some older patients, an early…
‘Small, flowering islands’: German city reveals how nature thrives when neighbours care for street tree beds
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…
In a year of record-breaking heat, Australia and Pacific leaders meet to sharpen climate goals
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…
BBC climate thriller The Rapture isn’t so far-fetched
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…
Sharks often swim across national borders. Our conservation efforts must travel with them
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…
Demolishing Lagos informal settlements also destroys the city’s best defences against climate change
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…
Climate change is making it easier for invasive species to succeed
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…
We’re not protecting our oceans as well as we think: new research
Overfishing and poor enforcement are just two reasons marine ecosystems are struggling to recover...Read More
A record-shattering El Niño is almost here. Here’s what that means for the world’s weather
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…