Communities in England will be given extra powers to take over pubs and other assets threatened with closure under proposed new legislation. Under the English devolution and community empowerment bill ...

We’ve all heard it. That phrase trotted out with deadening familiarity by green sceptics: “Solar and wind are all very well, but what happens when the breeze doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine?

Optimism isn’t everything, but it’s seriously useful, reckons Sumit Paul-Choudhury. He draws on history and science to make his case In the months after his wife’s death from ovarian cancer, Sumit ...

How might animals have a stake in democratic processes? How do we truly hear what they want? This project aims to find out What would change if forests, waterways and wildlife were recognised as more ...

What would change if forests, waterways and wildlife were recognised as more than just resources? The idea has been debated ever since Prof Christopher Stone posited in a 1972 issue of the Southern ...

China’s emissions shrank, scientists had a breast cancer breakthrough, and Europe’s best cycle city was revealed, plus more good news ...

Uganda halted its Ebola outbreak, elk were mooted for a return to the UK, and working-class writers got a new platform, plus more good news Uganda declared an end to its Ebola outbreak Health ...

1) Think beyond sleep Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith, a physician and author, believes there are seven types of rest: physical, mental, emotional, social, sensory, creative and spiritual. Most people tend to ...

An ambitious programme combines solar power with mobile connectivity to revolutionise the prospects for people living in rural India Imagine this. You’re living in a remote rural hamlet in the ...

A Finnish researcher has designed a visual tool to get us talking in depth about the emotional impact of the climate crisis Every day we’re fed a slew of headlines warning of the scale of the climate ...

London, Paris, Milan ... and now Oswestry, Shropshire, where a pioneering shared wardrobe scheme means you can visit the library and leave with a fresh outfit Lizzie Dibble is hopeful that her clothes ...

Europe offered ‘scientific asylum’ to US-based researchers, neurodiversity hit the big screen, and plans for a new national forest were announced ...