A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

A cheap and practical intervention, given at birth, could save lives in conflict zones and beyond.

Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.

Poised to take control of ‘the backbone of the UK’s energy production’, Franceso Mazzagatti is defending allegations bribery, forgery and fraud

A young journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence and an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30

Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.

Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.

The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.

Firm will instead invest A$2m a year in ‘climate impact fund’ supporting renewables and switching to EVs

A local water company said tankers of its water would no longer be sent to the American billionaire’s estate to fill his lake.

The airstrikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in which at least 20 people were killed, including five journalists and media workers, underlines the need for global action to end the Israeli governme...

Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.

In Julia Loktev’s epic documentary, filmed before, during, and after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, several courageous Moscow reporters see their worst fears realized.

Countries deadlocked on whether legally binding deal should include curbs on production and toxic chemicals Once again negotiators will leave the plastic summit this week without a treaty, having failed to reach agreement in what was supposed to have been the final round of talks. The delegates, who were attempting to complete a crucial treaty to end the plastic pollution crisis remain deadlocked over whether it should reduce exponential growth of plastic production and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastics. Continue reading...

Plenary continues at the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2)