Why can’t we leave them alone? The troubling truth about selfies with sloths

Nobody seems to know quite how the sloth became the rock star of the animal kingdom.…

Football pitch-sized area of tropical rainforest lost every six seconds

The amount of pristine tropical rainforest lost across the globe increased last year, as the equivalent…

Berta Caceres was exceptional. Her murder was all too commonplace | Nina Lakhani

Fifty-one months ago today Berta Caceres was gunned down by hired assassins at her home in…

As Trump rages, Republicans plead for calm

President Donald Trump spent Monday further fanning the flames of confrontation between protesters and police. And…

Black lawmakers look to ‘forcefully respond’ to police brutality crisis

Rep. Karen Bass. | Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP Photo Black leaders in Congress…

Sixth mass extinction of wildlife accelerating, scientists warn

The sixth mass extinction of wildlife on Earth is accelerating, according to an analysis by scientists…

Top business leaders call on Boris Johnson to set out green recovery plan

Britain’s most powerful business leaders have called on Boris Johnson to set out economic recovery plans…

Covid-19 has given us the chance to build a low-carbon future | Christiana Figueres

The air is clean and fresh, fish have reappeared in urban waterways, birds are frequenting uncut…

Critically endangered herb thriving on Macquarie Island after seven-year feral animal eradication program

A critically-endangered herb once thought extinct on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island has been found growing at a…

‘Magical and antiquarian’: William Arnold’s plant portraits

Lonicera periclymenum , honeysuckle Rosa canina, dog rose Jacobaea vulgaris , ragwort Oxalis stricta, yellow wood…