Environment

A study suggests that if people cannot adapt to future climate temperatures, deaths caused by severe heatwaves will rise in tropical and subtropical regions

A damning report has concluded that charities reactions to sexual abuse by aid workers is “reactive, patchy and sluggish.’ Shockingly abuse by charity staff is endemic and the organisations that are supposed to helping people in disadvantaged parts of the world are actually, in some cases, making their lives even worse. The document, by MPs, was produced in light of the claims of sexual abuse by Oxfam staff on Haiti, after a natural disaster on the island. The 120-page report...

While night-time lighting is good for parasitoid wasps, who find food far more easily, aphid populations are decimated by them as they are so much more visible.

Humour is universal - with no 'cultural barriers', say psychologists.

Scientists say that if CO2 levels continue to rise the consequences will be “catastrophic”

First mapping of global marine wilderness shows just how little remains

Photographer Hugh Brown uncovered those exposed to the harshest and most dangerous ways of making a living

The photos taken over five days in June show Brits watching the World Cup and making most of the scorching weather in the capital.

They say that a failure to act quickly and decisively will greatly increase the risk of 'unprecedented and irrevocable' species loss in the most diverse parts of the planet