Fresh data tabled in Parliament shows that while girls’ school retention has improved significantly at the primary level, secondary education continues to witness a worrying dropout rate. Although the...
Lake Chad, once one of Africa’s largest inland water bodies, has lost around 90% of its surface area since the 1960s, leaving millions of people facing the loss of fishing, farming and livestock livel...
A depiction of Cassiodorus, 1493, from the Nuremberg Chronicles by Michel Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (Public Domain) War does more than destroy buildings. It can also wipe out knowledge collect...
For generations, the sound of a beaver working along an English waterway was something found only in history books. The animals that once shaped rivers and wetlands across Britain disappeared after ce...
Scotland has become the first nation in the UK to legally require bird-friendly nesting spaces in new buildings, marking a significant step for urban wildlife conservation. The new measure centres on ...
Barcelona police said they found 20-year-old American James “Jimmy” Gracey dead in shallow ocean water in front of the beachfront club Shoko on Thursday, ending a search that began after he went missi...