Cigarette butts for free food? How one group is asking people to rethink litter
More than 4.5tn cigarette butts are dropped every year around the world.View image in fullscreenMore than 4.5tn cigarette butts are…
What is killing Sumatra’s elephants? The battle to save one of our rarest animals
What is killing Sumatra’s elephants? The battle to save one of our rarest animals Investigators are still searching for what…
Parisians defy swimming ban to cool off as record heat hits Europe
Parisians cooled off in the city’s Saint-Martin canal as an unprecedented heatwave pushed temperatures across Europe.
Firefighters leave massive landfill blaze after battling it for two weeks
Firefighters have left the scene of a major landfill blaze after more than two weeks of battling it. The waste…
Washington chemical tank implodes with 1 worker dead and 9 missing – ‘no hope of rescue’
A person has died and nine others remain unaccounted for after a massive chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons…
Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress
A mountain pansy at Briarwood Banks, one of the increasingly rare calaminarian grasslands in Northumberland. These ‘metallophyte’ plants have adapted…
‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’
Puncak Jaya glacier ‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’ Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last…
UK records highest ever May temperature for second day in a row
London has recorded temperatures in the mid-30s for two consecutive days. Photograph: Jack Taylor/ReutersView image in fullscreenLondon has recorded temperatures…
Four killed as train and school bus collide in Belgium – Europe live
Belgium’s mobility minister Jean-Luc Crucke told Belgian broadcaster RTL that four people died in the crash – two children, the…