Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025.
The prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, now in its 60th year, has unveiled its Grand Title winners and category champions for 2025, celebrating the world’s most captivating and…
Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims
A prominent television advertisement by Red Tractor, the UK’s most ubiquitous certifier of farm products found on supermarket shelves, has been formally banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The…
Australia’s rainforests are releasing more carbon than they absorb, warn scientists
Typically, tropical rainforests operate as robust carbon sinks, diligently sequestering vast quantities of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This natural process occurs as new trees grow, absorbing carbon through photosynthesis, thereby offsetting…
Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats
However, the path to a cleaner maritime future encountered an insurmountable obstacle in the form of US President Donald Trump’s administration. President Trump had vociferously denounced the proposed plan as…
The trailblazer who made history as Nasa’s first woman commander.
Eileen Collins, an astronaut whose name should resonate in the annals of space exploration, not only shattered the proverbial glass ceiling but continued to ascend beyond it. Her remarkable career…
UK to join major wind farm project with eight European countries
The British government has framed this landmark deal as a crucial step towards strengthening national and regional energy independence, offering a vital escape from what it terms the "fossil fuel…
Would you really trust a robot to care for you in old age? These robots can clean, exercise – and care for you in old age. Would you trust them to?
The notion of delegating the intimate and complex task of elderly care to machines might once have seemed confined to the pages of science fiction. Yet, in a quiet lab…
The huge sums energy firms get to not provide power
Consider the early hours of 3 June, a date that starkly illustrates this inefficiency. At 1am, near gale-force winds were sweeping across Scotland. For the immense Moray East and West…
Bats are seeking sanctuary in churches – but they’re making an unholy mess
Soon, the historic edifice awakens with the subtle flutter of wings. Bats begin to emerge from their hidden roosts, darting and swooping through the aisles, their amplified chatter filling the…
Do UN climate talks have a point any more?
A photograph from a decade ago in Paris captures a moment that now feels like a relic of a bygone era. At COP21, dozens of world leaders, impeccably dressed, lined…
















