World’s major cities hit by 25% leap in extremely hot days since the 1990s

Capitals from London to Tokyo need urgent action to protect people from deadly high temperatures, analysts say

Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination

Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

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Wealth of world’s billionaires grew by $2tn in 2024, report finds

Rate of wealth growth last year was three times faster than 2023, Oxfam inequality research reveals

The Strava problem: how the fitness app was used to locate the world’s most powerful people

high carbon emissions of the world’s richest 1% are worsening hunger, poverty and excess deaths, a report has found

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The number of people living with or dying from disorders of the nervous system has risen dramatically over the past three decades, with 43% of the world’s population – 3.4 billion people – affected in 2021

UK is officially the world’s second-most miserable country; these were the happiest and unhappiest countries of 2023

EU agrees ‘historic’ deal with world’s first laws to regulate AI

The study published yesterday in Science Advances points to satellite observations that revealed expanding vegetation worldwide during much of the 1980s and 1990s. But then, about 20 years ago, the trend stopped.

Since then, more than half of the world’s vegetated landscapes have been experiencing a “browning” trend, or decrease in plant growth, according to the authors

Seiko Astron: World’s First Quartz Watch Turns 40