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It’s home to some of the world’s biggest and oldest trees, and with wildfires spreading dangerously fast through California’s Sequoia National Park, firefighters have taken the desperate measure of wrapping some of their ancient trunks in flame-resistant blankets in an effort to protect them from the blaze.

From Greece to Australia, California to Siberia: for the last year wildfires have wrought havoc around the world, devastating communities and land. But their impact isn’t measured just in the destructive force of the flames. Scientists in the Netherlands investigating last year’s Australian fires have discovered that far more harmful carbon dioxide was released than…

Could this clinic mark a shift in the way we view psychedelics? Or is it an expensive, under-researched and unproven experiment? 

They crossed the Channel from Calais without papers in small boats 6,000 years ago.

A year after their hard-hitting report demanding action to tackle the climate crisis, the 100 members of the public who’ve been part of the UK’s first Climate Assembly are back in Westminster, asking when that action is finally going to happen. 

Should a company be allowed to build the UK’s first new deep coal mine in 30 years?

At least 46 people have been killed in extreme flash flooding and tornadoes, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept across the north-eastern US.

As the UN issues a “code red for humanity”, Anja Popp is on the frontline of our warming planet, reporting on floods in Germany and fires in Greece.

At least ten people have died and dozens are missing after catastrophic flooding in the US state of Tennessee.

More than 250 people have applied to a project which hopes to send a physically disabled person into space for the first time. Since it was launched earlier this year, 257 people have applied for the European Space Agency’s (Esa) “parastronaut feasibility project”, including 20 men and 11 women from the UK, Channel 4 News…

At the beginning of the pandemic, scientists speculated that around 60 to 70% of people might need to be immune to the virus to hit the “herd immunity” threshold.

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burn out of control for a sixth day. Firefighters are battling flames on several fronts across the north of Evia, a large island east of Athens. But those who have lost their homes and livelihoods are growing…

Miami is one of the world’s most glamorous cities, but also one of the places most threatened by rising sea levels. 

Wildfires in Greece have flared back up and are now threatening Athens.