‘What can I do to help elephants?’

Climate change, poaching, competition for food and water … elephants have never faced such threats. Here are more than 50 ways to give them a helping hand. Can you add to the list?

Over half of world’s wild primate species face extinction, report reveals

Researchers warn of approaching ‘major extinction event’ if action is not taken to protect around 300 species, including gorillas, chimps, lemurs and lorises

Kenzo is going surfing in the Arctic Ocean

Kenzo closed Paris Men’s Fashion Week with Fall-Winter 2017 looks for both sexes. Kenzo Creative Directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon imagined a Fall-Winter 2017 collection “for people who experience as raw an environment as it gets and hope for it to continue forever.” In reaction to climate change, the KENZO team explores an utopic metaphor: … Read more

Gucci owner gets teeth into snakeskin market with python farm

Luxury group Kering says snakes will be raised in the ‘best conditions’ before they are turned into shoes, bags and belts

We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years

At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them

Twelve things you need to know about driverless cars

By 2025 most of today’s drivers are unlikely to even want to own a car. But will we still have gridlock? Will you need to pass a test? We asked the experts