Environment & Sustainability

For much of South America’s history, the arrival of a missionary has carried two reputations at once. One is charitable: a figure with medicine, schooling, and a language of human dignity that can be useful in a state that is…

For the first time, the new wind farms will be connected to more than one country through undersea cables.

A clap of thunder can come as a surprise in the steady calm of falling snow. Here’s what causes it.

The state of New Mexico is accusing three Texas oil executives of orchestrating “a fraudulent scheme” to pocket revenue from hundreds of oil and gas wells in New Mexico and offload the cost of plugging and cleaning up the wells…

Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree.

Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow into the Northern Hemisphere. But not all scientists agree.

In the back of Black Seed Bagels in northern Brooklyn is a giant catering kitchen filled with industrial-size condiments and freezers full of dough. A tall, silver electric oven, named the Baconator, stands in a far corner, cooking thousands of…

Environmental charity to prioritise water capture and storage as it urges gardeners to prepare for ‘new normal’ The Royal Horticultural Society has unveiled emergency plans to protect its gardens from major water shortages in the future. The environmental charity, which…

An extraordinary mosaic of wildlife has made Britain’s urban jungle its home London is the only place in the UK where you can find scorpions, snakes, turtles, seals, peacocks, falcons all in one city – and not London zoo. Step…

Wolves killed more than 2,100 reindeer in Finland last year, and herders are blaming the Ukraine war Juha Kujala no longer knows how many reindeer will return to his farm from the forest each December. The 54-year-old herder releases his…