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Indigenous peoples safeguard biodiversity better than any other group. But in 2018, 164 were killed defending the environment. It’s time for us to heed their knowledge, and protect their future.
‘Biodiversity offsetting’ is a globally-significant conservation practice, but new research reveals offsets have mixed results.
In Trump’s America, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and scope of the First Amendment.
The damage to the dam holding back a reservoir just a mile from the nearest town downriver should focus minds on ensuring civil infrastructure is maintained.
Economic growth created the climate crisis and continues to fuel it – ‘green’ growth is no solution.
Dumping millions of cubic metres of sand on the beach stops people from dealing with the reality of coastal erosion.
With the two big parties in turmoil, some politicians are striking out alone.
Drinking one less pint of beer a week could cut the risk of cardiovascular disease by almost half.
Climate change is expected to bring the UK both more heatwaves, and more intense rainfall.
Why wait for parts and equipment to arrive from Earth when you can print your own from moondust?
A substantial building programme is needed to rearrange our cities to benefit all types of journeys – not just commutes.
High levels of inequality damage our health, harm social cohesion and act as a brake on economic performance.
The scale of antibiotic resistance among bacteria found on surfaces around London is exposed in our new study.
There are better ways to deal with drug possession (for personal use) than putting the person behind bars.
Lifelong anonymity orders are a rare and exceptional interference with freedom of expression.
The Remain Alliance is excited but, given the odd circumstances of this campaign, the Conservatives could have done a lot worse.
The idea of human-animal hybrids can raise a lot of questions and it’s easy to feel they are “unnatural” because they violate the boundaries between species.
How and why animals develop as male or female is far more complex than we ever imagined.
180 years before Love Island, Chopin and Sands travelled to Mallorca to pursue their romance.
Urgent intervention is needed to secure H&W – and other strategic UK industrial assets – before key skills and capacity are irretrievably lost.
Three-quarters of people with an intellectual disability receive prescribed drugs.
Understanding happiness in chickens could tell us how to improve their housing.
Stone Age people in Egypt showed great respect for their dead, providing a glimpse of what was to come in the Dynastic period.
New evidence suggests most YouTube videos on climate change deny its existence.