Why the landmark Bretton Woods deal is as relevant today as in 1944 | Larry Elliott

Countries came together early and decisively to fix a broken global system. The same ambition is…

Free solo … with a permit: will Yosemite’s new rules put a damper on climbing culture?

The national park is instituting a permitting system for overnight rock climbers. Many see it as…

Could ‘engineered’ coral save the planet’s reefs from destruction?

London Zoo’s latest exhibition shows how scientists hope to halt the devastation caused by overheated oceans…

‘I’m seen as the fool’: the farmers putting trees back into the UK’s fields

It’s hoped a 12-year trial in Devon will persuade policymakers to back silvopasture to benefit the…

There’s a time and a place for trees – don’t transplant them for our amusement | Rowan Moore

A gaggle of oak saplings has gathered outside Tate Modern. They were grown by the British…

It’s on our plates and in our poo, but are microplastics a health risk?

The omnipresent plastic is rife in dust, rice, placentas and tap water, but experts say it’s…

Blue cushion sea stars, short-nosed snakes and sea slugs: 21 days beneath the Timor sea – in pictures

In April, documentary photographer and film-maker Conor Ashleigh walked the gangplank of the research vessel Falkor…

‘People are sceptical’: why mining giant BHP wants to get to net zero and how it plans to do it

Fiona Wild, the executive overseeing the company’s ambitious climate plan, outlines three things that must happen…

Divers remove 200lb of trash from Lake Tahoe in one day – video

Scuba divers removed about 200lb of garbage from California’s Lake Tahoe on Friday. The dive was…

Record metals boom may threaten transition to green energy

Demand and prices are soaring for minerals essential to the construction of low-carbon infrastructure The commodities…