Mines are hotspots for spread of Covid-19, study finds

Mining sites in Canada, the US and around the world have become hotspots for the spread…

Meat giants selling to UK linked to Brazil farms in deforested Amazon reserve

Three international meat companies have indirectly sourced cattle from farms that deforested a unique, protected Amazon…

Airlines and carmakers benefit from UK Covid relief scheme

Airlines, carmakers and oilfield engineers have benefited by billions from the government’s economic rescue plans, despite…

World Environment Day: Celebrating the UK’s precious biodiversity

The water vole The water vole, Britain’s fastest disappearing mammal, has vanished from over 90% of…

The world must seize this opportunity to meet the climate challenge | Andrew Bailey and others

We are currently in the midst of the most severe macroeconomic shock since the second world…

Coronavirus is an ‘SOS signal for the human enterprise’

The coronavirus pandemic is an “SOS signal for the human enterprise”, according to a leading economist…

Country diary: a shrieking cry summons me back to the Himalayas

A voice out of India beckoned from somewhere close to the foot of the wooded hills,…

Rand Paul battles Kamala Harris and Cory Booker on anti-lynching bill

Sen. Rand Paul is demanding changes to a popular anti-lynching bill that he says are needed…

Grassley puts hold on two Trump nominees until he gets answers on IG firings

Sen. Chuck Grassley. | Greg Nash/Pool via AP Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday…

Airlines and carmakers benefit from UK Covid relief scheme

Airlines, carmakers and oilfield engineers have benefited by billions from the government’s economic rescue plans, despite…