Would you eat lab-grown
meat?

Lab-grown meat could be on supermarket shelves within a decade. Would you eat a steak grown by...

Over four billion plastic particles found in beach sand of remote paradise island

Scientists explored one of the most isolated islands in the world...

Record numbers of beavers are being introduced to the UK

Beavers are being reintroduced to counties across the UK after 400 years of extinction. As a keystone...

Gamestop Redditors donate their winnings to endangered gorilla fund

The Dian Fossey Fund, established by the largest and longest running...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: One in a Million

Leaping over an unseen log, head raised and bright-eyed, the black-tailed doe looks full of life. But the...

Fossil hunter Mary Anning commemorated with new 50p coin collection

Self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning is celebrated with a new...

Soil degradation: the problems and how to fix them

A third of the world’s soil is moderately to highly degraded, threatening global food supplies...

New Zealand's quirky kākāpō are pulled back from the edge of extinction

Kākāpō are large, ground-dwelling, flightless parrots that were once...

Travelling to Malaysia

I gently woke up mum in the early hours of the November morning to say goodbye. We hugged and I walked to the station, dragging my suitcase behind me with a lump in...

Standing up Daniel

I put up a post in the Travellers in KL fb group asking if any other travellers fancied meeting up and Daniel got in touch. We spent a few nights talking through facebook...

Penang Island

I paid 41 ringgets for a bus ticket to Penang. The journey was going to be 5 hours. I was very early and the lady said to come back by 10.20. What was I to do for half an hour?

The Bengali club

I spent two days wandering the streets of George town. It was very hip and arty with Chinese temples and mosques here and there. But I felt restless. I was wasting my time.