Australians have long taken some comfort in the protection afforded by geography and the tyranny of distance. It was an…
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One of the nation’s deadliest flash floods in years struck one of Texas’ prime holiday recreation areas, the Guadeloupe River,…
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The giant and catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the BP oil spill, didn’t reach Apalachicola Bay in…
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Nearly 100 years ago, north-west Michigan cherry farmers and Traverse City community leaders started a festival to promote the city…
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In 1999, Beatriz Huertas, then a young anthropologist, travelled deep into the Peruvian Amazon to investigate reports of uncontacted Indigenous…
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Lorries thunder over the A14 bridge north of Cambridge, above steep roadside embankments covered in plastic shrouds containing the desiccated…
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It’s one of my midsummer rituals, if the forecast is right, to climb on to the moorland tops and await…
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As someone who has visited the snow for holidays since childhood, I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling increasingly uneasy…
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The bill, introduced into the US Senate last month, came with plenty of emotive and uncompromising language. “The mass killing…
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“It’s just too much, isn’t it?” says Julie, a retiree in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, about the 42C (107.6F) heat that her…
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