Access to health care is a big one as rural hospitals close. Two researchers who focus on rural issue explain how the federal government could help.

Access to health care is a big one as rural hospitals close. Two researchers who focus on rural issue explain how the federal government could help.

Affordable housing is a challenge for rural America, too.

As climate change threatens their food supply, migratory birds may find help in an unlikely place.

Britain has lost large areas of semi-natural habitat since the 1930s.

Insect-eating birds such as swifts and yellow wagtails are particularly vulnerable.

Environmental groups have criticised the government’s approach to nature – but what is this approach and why is it concerning?

Up to 42,000 tonnes a year of microplastics are removed from sewage, spread on fields as fertiliser and eventually wash back into watercourses.

Long before climate change was evident, California began planning a system of canals and reservoirs to carry water from the mountains to drier farms and cities. It’s no longer enough.

As governments and corporations pledge to help the planet by planting trillions of trees, a new study spotlights an effective, low-cost alternative: letting tropical forests regrow naturally.