You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its rivers. Pollution is the physical expression of..

August is the feather month, when the sky is brought down to earth. Birds have worn out the summer: quills..

The sound was both primeval yet utterly fresh and new: a time-travelling throwback to the middle ages; yet, at the..

The humble house brick has been turned into a battery that can store electricity, raising the possibility that buildings could..

Never before have we sprayed so much of a chemical on our food, on our yards, on our children’s playgrounds…

When you stand facing an exposed edge of permafrost, you can feel it from a distance. It emanates a cold..

A stranded dolphin has been saved after a five-hour rescue operation in Cornwall. The mammal was stuck in shallow water..

Today seems to be the day of the gatekeepers. Dozens of the bright, coppery-brown butterflies are fluttering around, rising above..

Tobacco plants have been modified with a protein found in algae to improve their photosynthesis and increase growth, while using..

Oil drifts ashore after the MV Wakashio, a Japanese-owned, Panama-flagged bulk carrier ship, ran aground off the south-east coast of..