Many will be baffled that such an agreement even exists. But the UK has become the latest country to announce its withdrawal from the controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which allows fossil ...

Spring is nature’s way of saying: ‘Let’s party!’” said the late actor Robin Williams, and the celebrations are truly kicking off where I live. The trees are coming into leaf again, we’re back to ...

More than 30 years since the launch of Fairtrade in the UK, international smallholders continue to face livelihood-threatening challenges. Here’s why its proponents argue the certification will endure ...

Perhaps it felt impossible at first, maybe the struggle ended up transforming your life. We want to hear your experiences All of us face moments in life that push us to our limits, physically, ...

Sweden has long pioneered policies that benefit families. Now the Scandinavian nation has gone even further by introducing paid parental leave for grandparents. Under a new law, a parent couple will ...

A group of Swiss women won a landmark climate justice battle in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) this week, in a ruling that presses governments across Europe to step up over the climate ...

In the 1980s, Finnish psychiatrists developed an approach to treating mental illness that dramatically improved outcomes for those in crisis. As a five-year study of ‘open dialogue’ nears completion ...

Trees offered a welcome ‘climate surprise’, AI boosted cancer detection rates, and a bird fluttered back from the brink, plus more good news AI is boosting cancer detection rates in England An ...

A group of Muslim women from east London have found kinship, fitness, spirituality and lots of fun through Nordic walking in the woods The rain is lashing down hard over Thames Chase Forest Centre on ...

The world got more than 30% of its electricity from renewables last year, a milestone that will usher in “a new era of falling power sector emissions”. That’s according to analysis by the climate ...

People experiencing homelessness are to be given direct financial support as part of a pioneering UK trial. The government-funded trial is inspired by similar schemes in Mexico and Canada, where cash ...

New tests promised to ‘turn the tide’ on cancer, a breakthrough saved a man’s sight, and the Dutch unplugged en mass, plus more good news New test could ‘turn the tide’ on prostate cancer A new ...