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As a teenager in post-USSR Ukraine, I vividly remember visiting secondhand clothes shops. For the elderly, the biggest obstacle to accepting secondhand clothes wasn’t just the lingering smell of naphthalene – a potent chemical with a strong mothball odour used for sanitation which is hard to remove even by washing…

Energy is an unusual commodity as it imposes running costs and capital expenditure. The main way to permanently reduce running costs is to spend money on more efficient use of energy: better insulated homes, more modern boilers, new appliances. Energy price rises since 2020 have provided the incentive to better-off…

Government’s communication called ‘unconscionable’ after one of largest spills of toxic ‘forever chemicals’

Court rules against West Cumbria Mining’s fossil fuel development in Whitehaven

The hazards of urban roads are familiar to many: from drivers itching to get in front to corner cutters and e-bike dabblers

The factoid about biodiversity and Indigenous peoples spread around the world, but scientists say bad data can undermine the very causes it claims to support

Australia is no stranger to extreme weather. From heatwaves and droughts to flooding rains, hailstorms or fire weather, our continent experiences it all.

Activities such as mining, dredging and bottom trawling in most MPAs mean conservation targets will be missed, say researchers

In announcing the strategy, climate minister Chris Bowen also took a swipe at the ‘climate inactivism’ of critics of the nascent industry

Incredible Edible’s guerrilla gardening movement encourages people to take food-growing – and more – into their own hands

Lecale, County Down: This colony of tall sea lavender was lost for most of the 21st century. What a thrill it is to crouch down beside it