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Fossil-free Dutch vehicles line up for a cool future

Technology

Fossil-free Dutch vehicles line up for a cool future

We're wedded to fossil fuels, but no-one told the people of Leeuwarden-Friesland. Is this the most innovative community you've never heard of?

Culture

A close-up of a hedgehog

Environment

Chris Packham: 'Let's stop sleepwalking towards mass extinction'

Comment

A pack of cyclists pass bare trees in the Belgian countryside

Environment

Cycling race footage highlights climate change effects on trees

News

An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade

Earth

An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade

News

giant centipede

Life

Rainforest romanticism is derailing our hunt for new drugs

Culture

Pile of coins

Earth

Capitalism broke the planet. Here’s how it’s going to fix things

Features

Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles

Earth

Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles

News

Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans

Earth

Wild animals are turning nocturnal to keep away from humans

News

EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it

Earth

EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it

News

ear muffs

Life

Following trends and easy answers isn't the way to a good life

Vegan clothes, biofuel and wood-burning stoves have all been offered up as ethical, environmental choices – but the evidence behind them is much more murky

Leader

Life

Vegan-friendly fashion is actually bad for the environment

Insight

Earth

Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

News

Earth

Britain’s hedgehog population has fallen 66 per cent in 20 years

News

Earth

Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

News