Ten million people stand to benefit from a cooler and more biodiverse capital, say the organisers of an ambitious project to ...

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A landmark moment for climate justice in Australia, Nobel prize winners revealed, and a promising drug for Parkinson’s, plus ...

When Dorothy Lowakutuk became one of Africa’s first female elephant keepers, she joined a movement challenging old ...

Schoolgirl, author and seasoned mudlark Emmylou Vaxby has spent nearly a decade searching the Thames foreshore for fragments ...

Better known as the Right Livelihood Award, the prize champions those offering “resistance to systems that push people to the margins”. All this year’s recipients are women or female-led organisations ...

Yes Friends has built a clothing brand around lower prices and better pay for garment workers. A Dragons’ Den investment is about to put its model to a bigger test For years, affordable fashion has ...

Some 27 years after the Kosovo War ended, a humanitarian mission to clear the country of landmines has concluded. The Halo Trust, a mine-clearance charity, announced this week that its work in the ...

Researchers have identified 51 environmental solutions that could trigger an “unstoppable” wave of positive change. Here are five of the most promising In a timely intervention, academics have ...