Avoid using wood burning stoves if possible, warn health experts

Campaigners and health experts are calling on people who have alternative heating not to use their…

Beekeepers brace for next round with Canada’s ‘murder hornets’

The year 2020 is not one that beekeepers in Washington state and the Canadian province of…

‘The litter was a shock’: 2020’s Covid-driven rush on UK national parks

For some years, Britain’s national parks have been wrestling with the same conundrum: how to attract…

A different world: could 2021 be the best year for a generation?

Has a new year ever been as eagerly anticipated as 2021? A fresh start, a new…

Pollutionwatch: fine particles affect lungs of those near airports

For seven months in 2018, a lorry trailer was parked near a runway at Amsterdam’s Schiphol…

Country diary: lapwings flock together in a great, morphing mass

The sun sets the water ablaze, creating a dazzling trail of Greek fire, the light glittering…