Senate braces for brutal debate on Biden’s Covid aid bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during a weekly news conference on March 2, 2021. |…

International climate scientists join call to halt Leeds Bradford airport expansion

Academics write to Robert Jenrick predicting dire consequences for climate crisis if plans go ahead Leading…

‘A new world of discovery’: readers’ photos of their local wildlife

We asked UK readers to send in photos of the natural world near them from the…

Spring into action: 15 easy March gardening tasks to prepare for the growing season

Now is the time to feed your vegetable patch, start seedlings on the windowsill and work…

UK has broken air pollution limits for a decade, EU court finds

Levels of nitrogen dioxide, mostly from diesel vehicles, remain illegally high in 75% of urban areas…

Policing, guns, voting rights: Historic Democratic goals hit Senate skids

Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) speaks at a House Judiciary Committee markup of H.R. 7120, the “Justice…

Turning plagues of locusts into chicken feed – in pictures

The biggest swarms of the insects in a generation have devastated crops and grazing across Africa…

We can’t contact Woodland Trust after root and branch cyber-attack

I applied for a grant under its MOREwoods scheme to fund planting, and have heard nothing…

‘There’s no excuse for this’: thousands in Mississippi city still without water weeks after storms

In Jackson, where 80% of residents are Black, the cold led to breakages in the city’s…

TV tonight: how science could reverse the climate crisis

Scientists offer up their ideas about how we could reduce global warming. Plus the ins and…