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Evidence has emerged that increasing numbers of extreme weather events are causing dieback of Arctic plants – or ‘browning’ – across areas within the Arctic Circle

A technique first used by NASA to grow crops in space has been successfully adapted to work on Earth

Since launching in 1994, the National Lottery draw has cemented itself as a staple of British culture. There was even a time when the televised weekly draw pulled in millions of viewers every Saturday night. But despite donating a large portion of their proceeds to good causes, fewer people are ...

Glaciers on Antarctic and Greenland may disappear more quickly despite dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from transport and industry.

The Hate U GiveFilm is a reactive medium, but because it is expensive and time consuming to make it’s also often a slow one. The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 but this year we seem to have seen a glut of films that feel like they are responding ...

Three-in-four Brits, including both Remainers (by five-to-one) and Leavers (by three-to-one), think Brexit is distracting too much attention from "more pressing" issues like automation and the future of the NHS & social care, according to a new report. Ideas for a 21st Century Enlightenment, by the Royal Society for the encouragement of ...

By 2050 humankind will struggle to feed a population of roughly nine billion people without missing targets to curb climate change and save the rainforests, a report said.

Most of the sand was dragged offshore and it will take several calm winters to replenish them

An Iceland Christmas advert banned by regulators for breaching political advertising rules has today been released online. The ad tells the story of deforestation caused by palm oil production through an animated short film about an orangutan. It was made in a deal that the supermarket chain struck with campaign group ...