‘Less water means more gas’: how drought will test California’s stressed power grid

Earlier this month, the water level in Lake Oroville – California’s second-largest reservoir – was so…

Australia and 11 other countries lobby Unesco over Great Barrier Reef decision-making

Twelve international ambassadors to Unesco, including Australia’s, have written to the UN body to “share collective…

‘A lot of people are jaded’: Dems despair amid D.C. gridlock

Efforts to forge a bipartisan gun control deal in the Senate have fallen apart. A sweeping…

Democrats hurtle toward debt deadline without a clear plan

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure negotiations could get more complicated, thanks to the government’s need to keep…

Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest

A mysterious illness is killing birds across several states in the south and midwestern US, and…

Water of death: how arsenic is poisoning rural communities in India

‘A crisis is brewing’, experts warn, with contaminated water exposing villagers to increased risk of cancer…

Call the copse! The sudden flourishing of culture about trees

From a fake forest in central London to Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard told from the orchard’s point…

Country diary: the secrets of deadly nightshade

Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: The belladonna has a strange purple glow and an even stranger history A…

Dems pan proposed Colorado redistricting map

Colorado is rapidly turning blue, but Republicans might be on track to hold half the state’s…