From BBC SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images Jackdaws use a “democratic” process to decide when to leave their roosts en masse, scientists have discovered. Thousands of jackdaws can suddenly take to the morning skies in winter, creating…

From BBC SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images The war in Ukraine has upended Germany’s energy policy. The nation currently buys around 25% of its oil and 40% of its gas from Russia, contributing billions of euros a…

MARERENI, Kenya — One day in April, at a few minutes past six in the morning, the sun’s golden rays lit up the sea on Kenya’s coast. A few early-rising fishermen stood shoulder-deep in the sea, working their nets in…

In her landmark 1962 book, Silent Spring, biologist Rachel Carson chronicled the damage — and looming consequences — of human “contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials,” which she called “elixirs of death.” In…

From BBC SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, BBC News Tomatoes that boost the body’s vitamin D could be among the first gene-edited crops allowed on sale in England. Researchers in Norwich created the plants by turning off a specific…

On some days, a strong smell of oil wafts through the Indigenous Kichwa community of October 12, located in Peru’s Amazonian region of Loreto. Residents going outside to see what it is often find an oily stain spreading through the…

In 1942, when Mary Abo was 2 years old, the U.S. government arrested her father and took the rest of the Abo family from Juneau, Alaska, to the Minidoka prison camp in the desert of south-central Idaho. The United States…

Pressure from investors and conservationists has forced Home Depot to reevaluate how it does business, following findings that some of the plywood it sells may be coming from mega diverse forests affected by deforestation. Shareholders voted May 19 on a…

From BBC SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Financial Times Limited HSBC has reportedly suspended a senior executive who accused central bankers and other officials of exaggerating the financial risks of climate change. Last week, Stuart Kirk, a leader in…

PALAWAN, Philippines — On a dreary April day, agroforestry worker Jimmy Tablason frowns in the sweltering heat as he trudges through the ruins of forests protected for decades by his community. Typhoon Rai, known as Odette in the Philippines, had…