Fashion brands' business practices undermining progress on ending garment worker exploitation

Top fashion companies that are pledging to end worker exploitation in their global supply chains are…

Scientists shed new light on demise of two extinct New Zealand songbirds

They may not have been seen for the past 50 and 110 years, but an international…

NASA finds tropical storm 14W strengthening

Tropical Storm 14W formed as a depression a couple of days ago in the Northwestern Pacific…

Greenland's rapidly vanishing glaciers

The BBC’s David Shukman returns to the Sermilik glacier that he last visited in 2004. …

Meat-eating plants making a comeback in England

Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced in an attempt to reverse their decline. Click…

Buying many smart home devices leaves people dissatisfied with the technology, research shows

The more smart devices such as Amazon Echo that people add to their homes, the less…

Cannabis may hold promise to treat PTSD but evidence lags behind use

As growing numbers of people are using cannabis to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new…

New light shed on demise of two extinct New Zealand songbirds

They may not have been seen for the past 50 and 110 years, but an international…

Finding an effective way to reduce pressure ulcers

Expensive high-tech air mattresses are only marginally better at preventing pressure sores and ulcers than a…

PIA23360: Flooding from Dorian Seen from Space

           Target: Earth Mission:  ARIA Instrument:  SAR Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, ESA Click here for…