The sailing cargo ship Kwai docked in Honolulu last month after a 25-day voyage with 40 tonnes of fishing nets and consumer plastics aboard, gathered from what has become known as the Gre...
Country children have better motor skills than city kids, which means they develop faster and could even enjoy greater equality in society, according to a new Finnish study.
Una lógica evolutiva cruel sucede en la vida silvestre del mundo. Charles Darwin dijo que la capacidad de adaptarse al cambio determina las especies que sobreviven. Hoy en día, el cambio ...
China y Estados Unidos se encuentran en un punto muerto comercial después de que ambos países hayan impuesto cientos de miles de millones de dólares en aranceles sobre los bienes de cada ...
China, home to almost a fifth of the world’s population, is a country of superlatives. Forty years of economic growth, at an average of nearly 10% a year, has transformed the country into...
When was the last time you spoke to a stranger on the bus?
Lampposts are rarely in the limelight. Gene Kelly climbed on one in the iconic Hollywood movie Singin’ in the Rain, but for most of the time the humble lamppost is just that. But not for ...
Human rights activists around the world have welcomed a landmark decision by Botswana’s High Court to decriminalize homosexuality. But progress towards equal rights for LGBTI people globa...
A cruel evolutionary logic is at work among the world’s wildlife. Charles Darwin said the ability to adapt to change determined which species survived. Today, change is so fast, many of o...
Farming has an image problem in large parts of Africa. For many people there, it’s synonymous with poverty. So it’s hardly surprising parents don’t want their children to end up working t...
From the Mekong to the Seine, the first global study of antibiotics in the world’s rivers has revealed that some contain concentrations up to 300 times above ‘safe’ levels.
Single-use plastic bags are steadily being ditched around the globe, with Tanzania the latest in a list of 91 to bring in some form of plastic bag ban.
The European Union reduced its CO2 emissions by 2.5% last year, with all but eight of the EU’s 28 nations emitting less of the greenhouse gas in 2018 than the year prior.
Sweden’s departure lounges are looking less crowded as more Swedes are deciding to take the train rather than fly.
China and the United States are at a trade stand-off after both countries have implemented hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on each other's goods over the past year.
