Justin Rowlatt Climate Editor BBC Listen to Justin read this article Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists are dusting down their placards, digging out their infamous fluorescent orange vests, and charging up their loud hailers — a routine they have gone through many a time before. It has taken just three years of throwing soup, spraying...
Azadeh Moshiri, Usman Zahid and Kamil Khan Dayan BBC News Reporting fromGilgit-Baltistan BBC Lovely is one of between 4,000 and 6,000 snow leopards on the planet Snow leopards cannot growl. So when we step towards one of these fierce predators, she’s purring. “Lovely,” as she’s called, was orphaned and rescued 12 years ago in Pakistan-administered...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Getty Images Imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1538 waiting to be executed, Henry Courtenay, the Earl of Devon, wrote on his cell walls words which would become his family’s motto – “Where have I fallen, what have I done?” Nearly 500 years later, another Earl of Devon, is once...
Steffan Messenger Environment correspondent, BBC Wales News Clare Hutchinson BBC Wales News Garan Thomas This blaze on the Rhigos Mountain in south Wales in June 2023 destroyed an area the size of 140 football pitches Some of the UK’s rarest wildlife is being “torched alive” and pushed closer to extinction after weeks of intense grass...
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Colossal Biosciences Three of the wolf puppies have been named Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi There is a magnificent, snow-white wolf on the cover of Time Magazine today – accompanied by a headline announcing the return of the dire wolf. This now extinct species is possibly most famous for its...