Environment

Exercise is tremendously beneficial for our health in many ways, but it’s not that effective when it comes to...

In late 2025, Interpol coordinated a global operation across 134 nations, seizing roughly 30,000 live animals, confiscating illegal plant and timber products, and identifying about 1,100 suspected wildlife traffickers for national police to investigate.Wildlife trafficking...

Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case....

Christophe Dubi, the IOC executive director for the Olympic Games, added: "We make a point to receive those petitions, and we have to recognise climate is a challenge for all of us."What we have to do as an organisation...

FrostlinesNeil Shea, Picador (UK, 12 February) Ecco Publishing (US, available now) IN SO far as those of us further south...

A master meditator has spent 15 years learning to quiet his sense of self – and brain scans suggest...

Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a potentially toxic “forever chemical”, has more than tripled in the global environment in two decades...

The world is looking for more clean water. Intense storms and warmer weather have worsened droughts and reduced the amount of clean water underground and in rivers and lakes on the surface.Under pressure to provide...

Watching the Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace.When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in...

As Winter Storm Fern swept across the United States in late January 2026, bringing ice, snow and freezing temperatures, it left more than a million people without power, mostly in the Southeast.Scrambling to meet...