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Global forest health has plunged to “dismal” levels and threatens the wellbeing of humanity, warns a damning report that highlights how financial systems are pouring money…

That suggests anyone could set up similar hardware somewhere else in the world and likely obtain their own collection of sensitive information. After all, the researchers…

Global consumption of plastics is on the rise, but only a small percentage of plastic waste is recycled. Credit: Justin Sullivan/GettyCrucial negotiations on what would have…

More than half of all bird species are in decline, according to a new global assessment, with deforestation driving sharp falls in populations across the planet.On…

One of the world’s biggest windfarm developers will cut its workforce by a quarter in the next two years after a series of setbacks for the…

I’ve spent my life determined to be one of a kind – perhaps because I’m a twin. During our birth, my younger-by-two-minutes brother’s umbilical cord wrapped…

October 1, 20253 min readHow the World’s Oldest Woman Lived to 117Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest person in the world when she died. Scientists analysed…

A woman has been convicted for her role in a multibillion-pound bitcoin fraud after what is thought to have been the world’s largest cryptocurrency seizure.Zhimin Qian,…

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace…

The world’s biggest capital cities are now sweltering under 25% more extremely hot days each year than in the 1990s, an analysis has found. Without urgent…