The winners of this year's International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition have been announced A sunrise on the Atacama desert in Chile and an elm tree in a snow storm are among the four ...

Digital apps get a bad rap for disconnecting families, but one company has come up with an idea that reconnects generations by combining technology with print Once upon a time some 20bn letters were ...

A year after completion, an innovative UK river ‘reset’ project has been hailed a success. It could provide a template for tackling some of the impacts of more extreme weather events We can restart ...

Surrounded by concrete, in a low-ceilinged space that could optimistically described as ‘intimate’, musicians sit with bows poised, mouthpieces at the ready. They’re here to perform a prom, but this ...

There was progress on poverty, the ‘building of the year’ was revealed, and researchers offered a quick climate win, plus more good news Poverty rates hit a new low in Latin America Poverty rates in ...

Some words have real sticking power. Not so much the stream of motivational quotes in decorative borders that surge daily through social media. More those gems that – by dint of their poignancy in a ...

From insightfully chosen presents to the gift of an experience or simply someone’s time, what offerings have meant the most to you? Many of us have much more stuff than we’ll ever need, but giving and ...

A new charity is joining forces with Britain’s food banks, serving up books to browse, borrow or keep They can turn a dull commute into a fight of fantasy, help foster friendship or deepen the bond ...

A federation of wildlife charities plans to create a ‘showcase for nature recovery’ after buying a rural estate in the largest land sale in England for three decades. The Wildlife Trusts has partnered ...

Five “gamechanging” initiatives have won this year’s Earthshot prize, a competition that’s designed to scale up solutions to environmental problems. A pioneering conservation project that saved a ...

Organic ideas are coming to life through a farming collective that provides land and know-how to hopeful businesses From Scotland to Cornwall, an organic, regenerative collective of UK farmers is ...

What began with a single windfarm has blossomed into a values-led renewables investment company that has funded 42 UK green energy projects “Back in 1994, renewables were generating less than 2% of ...