🗓️ Following mass arrests outside Labour’s Liverpool conference, we’re boosting our defiance against the ban on Palestine Action! On Saturday October 31st, we are taking mass-action in London. 🪧 This ...

Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather

In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...

Letter: Dr Chris Garrard responds to an article about George Osborne assuming that Palantir founder Peter Thiel’s visit to view the Bayeux tapestry would remain secret

Spain's southern coast produces up to 25% of Europe's fruit and vegetables. But amid intensive farming, climate change and illegal wells, the water it takes to grow them is drying up.

Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority

Hello from the Patchwork Challenge team!   I am very sorry for the shortened, revised write-up for August. Time has been scarce this month w...

How cloned and ghost number plates are leaving innocent motorists facing fines, debt collection threats and years of stress.

Stella Creasy, chair of the influential Labour Movement for Europe, has said Mr Burnham only has six months to start taking action ahead of a pro-EU rally at the Labour Party conference

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

Areas of Iceland that have experienced high volcanic ash deposition can accommodate up to three times as many breeding waders. When Tómas Gunarsson began his PhD at the University of East Anglia on…

It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread danger...

Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency

The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.

Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology

I find it amazing that, when they depart on autumn migration, juvenile waders can be faced with a journey of hundreds or thousands of kilometres. In the latest phase of their Oystercatcher studies …

The Tyrolean Iceman is 5,300 years old and his mitochondrial genome has been previously sequenced. This study reports the full genome sequence of the Iceman and reveals that he probably had brown eyes...

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister