Walking hand-in-hand to the skatepark, decks tucked under their arms, Asha Gond and Puti are pioneers of India’s burgeoning female skateboarding community – and the subject of an award-winning photo ...

Peering into chimneys, scaling rooftops and even dodging sparks at an electricity substation, one woman in Cornwall is rescuing swarms of bees destined for extermination by pest controllers. Her ...

When you’re stuck in a rut, moving forward can feel impossible. Here are five ways to try to progress through struggles Often solutions to our problems are within our reach, but fear of failure, ...

Communities in England will be given extra powers to take over pubs and other assets threatened with closure under proposed new legislation. Under the English devolution and community empowerment bill ...

Parisians are swimming in the Seine again following a years-long clean-up – but the French capital isn’t the first European city to bring river bathing back You might want to pack your swimwear next ...

An online library offers free access to sounds from 270 Unesco world heritage sites Armchair travellers can take a sonic tour of hundreds of Unesco heritage sites via a virtual library of atmospheric ...

“Every crisis,” writes US author and activist Rebecca Solnit in her latest essay collection, “is in part a storytelling crisis.” “The most important territory to take is in the imagination,” she ...

Renewables and EVs are keeping the net zero dream alive, said experts Reaching net zero emissions by 2050 just might be within grasp in the UK, ‘provided the government stays the course’, Climate ...

A thought-provoking collaboration melding music and nature has shone a light on the nocturnal world of a much-maligned member of the insect family: the moth. Violinist Ellie Wilson used moth flight ...

Scotland moved to make ecocide illegal, violent crime fell rapidly in the US, and lowland gorillas got a boost, plus more good news ...

Optimism isn’t everything, but it’s seriously useful, reckons Sumit Paul-Choudhury. He draws on history and science to make his case In the months after his wife’s death from ovarian cancer, Sumit ...

Challenging the dominance of ‘human supremacy’, these movements urge us to rethink our relationship with the more-than-human world What would change if forests, waterways and wildlife were recognised ...