In photos: Water crisis in Texas continues
Power has returned to most of Texas after a week of statewide blackouts caused by historic winter storms, but millions…
Power has returned to most of Texas after a week of statewide blackouts caused by historic winter storms, but millions…
I fell for Kangaroo Island from my first visit. I recall standing on a headland on the island’s southern coast,…
A huge lake in Bolivia has almost entirely disappeared. Lake Poopó used to be the country’s second largest, after Lake…
Imagine you are on the coast, looking out to sea. In front of you lies 100 metres of barren sand…
Weeks prior to the lockdowns and closures that came with the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary General António Guterres said 2020…
What do you do when COVID-19 safety protocols and travel restrictions mean you can’t do your research? That’s what these…
Aardvarks are notoriously elusive, nocturnal mammals. They generally hide in their underground burrows during the day and emerge at night…
The pandemic has upended Thanksgiving and the shopping season that the holiday kicks off, creating a new crop of economic…
Last summer, many Australians were shocked to see fires sweep through the wet tropical rainforests of Queensland, where large and…
Two hundred years ago, on November 17, Connecticut ship captain Nathaniel Palmer spotted the Antarctic continent, one of three parties…
Recent revelations about the speed and scale of nature’s decline are hard to truly comprehend. Not since the dinosaurs disappeared…
Asylum seekers are often dropped off with no money, phone, or sense of where they are once admitted to the…
The first thing you notice about ecologist Arthur Kopelman is his giant white beard. The second is the gold whale…
Look at all the pretty drones. Hovering above sports stadiums from Houston to Pyeongchang, many hundreds of them have lately…
There are no secrets in consumer electronics anymore. Sometimes it’s the fault of flubs and flaws and leakers. Sometimes it’s…
A bloke who was recently spotted dancing in a nightclub is reportedly one hundred percent certain that the girl dancing…
Some Twitter users opted to see the funny side after President Donald Trump used an all-caps tweet to threaten Iranian…
It has become widely circulated that the current artistic director of Locarno Film Festival, Carlo Chatrian, will be vacating the…