Walking hand-in-hand to the skatepark, decks tucked under their arms, Asha Gond and Puti are pioneers of India’s burgeoning female skateboarding community – and the subject of an award-winning photo ...

Parisians are swimming in the Seine again following a years-long clean-up – but the French capital isn’t the first European city to bring river bathing back You might want to pack your swimwear next ...

Peering into chimneys, scaling rooftops and even dodging sparks at an electricity substation, one woman in Cornwall is rescuing swarms of bees destined for extermination by pest controllers. Her ...

The UK’s supreme court has upheld the legal right to wild camp at a treasured English beauty spot – a judgment that was about much more than simply pitching a tent. Wednesday’s ruling followed ...

The Dutch are no strangers to living on the water, but a new eco-community in Amsterdam is taking things to another level There’s been a boom in interest in communal living in recent years. Could it ...

The sound of progress has rarely been so literal. This week a “life-changing” breakthrough in gene therapy has given people born with genetic hearing loss potential for recovering some of their ...

We all have that one song, book, film or piece of art that stays with us – something that sparks a memory or shifts how we see the world. Maybe it’s a poem that empowered you through challenges, a ...

While finding well-paid, meaningful work remains a struggle for many in the UK and beyond right now, some sectors are on the up, offering hope. From the festival organiser who sees potential in a new ...

Convinced of the lifechanging impact that a positive pregnancy and birth experience can have, Amina Hatia deploys her natural nurturing instinct to help people flourish as parents. She is particularly ...

Introducing livestock onto mixed pastures of herbs, grasses and legumes brings other co-benefits: the root structure of the diverse plants breaks up compacted ground, improving water retention, and ...

1. EU emissions shrank (and China’s ‘may have peaked’) While the climate crisis came into ever sharper focus in 2024, emissions continued to rise – but not everywhere. Data published in October ...

Conservation was shown to work, a ‘gamechanger’ cancer jab moved closer, and a Dutch city cancelled people’s debt, plus more good news ...