Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Reuters Since Thailand decriminalised cannabis in 2022, shops selling the drug have popped up across the country Thailand is trying to rein in its free-wheeling marijuana market. The government has approved new measures, which will soon restrict consumption of the drug to those with a doctor’s prescription – in...
A full Strawberry Moon will grace UK skies tonight, coupled with a rare phenomenon not to be seen for almost 20 years. Stargazers in the northern hemisphere already spotted an almost full moon sitting very low in the sky on Tuesday, but the full peak of the moon will appear later. BBC Weather presenter Sophia...
Esme Stallard Climate and science correspondent Reporting fromUN Oceans Conference, Nice, France Getty Images Unregulated mining in the deep sea should not be allowed to go ahead, the head of the United Nations has warned. “The deep sea cannot become the Wild West,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said at the opening of the UN...
Bea Swallow BBC News, Bristol Family Handout Jack Lees sent his mum pictures of the sun setting over the beach in the hours before his death A university student union says it has improved safety measures after a “heroic” student drowned while rescuing three women from the sea. Jack Lees was just days away from...
An Australian woman who cooked a toxic mushroom meal has told her murder trial she has long been a mushroom lover, but more recently developed a taste for wild fungi varieties that have “more flavour”. Erin Patterson has pleaded not guilty to the murder of three relatives, and the attempted murder of another, after serving...
SPECIAL REPORT Campaigners compel Exeter City Council to reconsider Northbrook pool closure with 2,250-strong resident petition Exeter City Council is under pressure to reconsider its plan to close Northbrook Swimming Pool after community campaigners triggered a full council debate on the closure by raising a petition imploring it to keep the pool open that was...
Chloe Parkman BBC News, South West Becky Harrison Becky Harrison said wild camping was “magical” “It can teach you so much, so much within yourself, and about the environment – it becomes addictive,” said Becky Harrison of going wild camping. The 52-year-old from the South Hams in Devon first tried it three years ago and...
Getty Images The Supreme Court ruling means that people are legally allowed to camp in set areas of Dartmoor Wild camping is “not about large tents and fairy lights” Dartmoor’s authority has said after a court decision affirming the right to pitch a tent on the moor. Supreme Court judges unanimously rejected an appeal by...
The Supreme Court has upheld the legal right to wild camp on Dartmoor, unanimously dismissing an appeal against Dartmoor National Park Authority made by Dartmoor landowners Alexander and Diana Darwall. The Darwalls had sought to overturn a Court of Appeal ruling handed down in July 2023 which restored the right to wild camp following a...
Jonathan Morris BBC News, South West John Harding John Harding, right, and friend Lewis Gingell recorded a three-day trek across Dartmoor The UK Supreme Court is set to rule on whether people have the legal right to wild camp on Dartmoor in a case that has reignited a debate over public access to land. Wild...
Wild explores our relationship with the natural world and unique approaches to environmental recovery. The exhibition will look at how people are creating, rebuilding, and repairing connections with nature, and how we can tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis by making our world, and local environments, more wild. This July visitors to Exeter City Council’s...
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Watch: wild chimpanzees filmed using forest ‘first aid’ Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants – in multiple ways – to treat open wounds and other injuries. University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals...
Watch: ‘This is phenomenal’ – Moment wild beaver is filmed on banks of River Dyfi A wild beaver has been filmed on a river in Wales in what has been described as a “hugely significant” sighting. Beavers disappeared from Britain about 400 years ago after being hunted to extinction, but in the past two decades...
Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC In the first week of 2025, Nigel Farage told me his ultimate goal was to become prime minister. It stuck in my mind that he chose to add: “I’m not joking.” Nobody in the two traditional main parties finds his stunning success this week funny. “Farage is...
Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Reporting fromKarlsruhe, Germany Watch: Moment lynx is released in Newquay A lynx born in a zoo in Cornwall could become the first UK zoo-born cat to be successfully released into the wild. Animals born and raised in zoos are rarely considered for release because they either don’t have the survival...