Rome ’s mayor promised that the Tiber would be clean enough for swimming within five years – a pledge that was immediately ...

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks ...

Lead poisoning was once thought to largely be a problem of the past, as the globe gradually weaned itself off leaded gasoline ...

Luke Kemp’s Goliath Curse explores how inequality, disease and climate impacted civilisations and shows that change often brings progress.

Evidence from a five-metre-long sediment core has provided archaeologists from the Universities of Nottingham and Cambridge with the first unbroken ...