On Monday, a brown pool of foam was spotted on the River Gipping, near West End Road, Ipswich, and was reported to the Environment Agency. Previously, on Saturday, a thick orange sheen was also spotted in Stowmarket, on the River Rat near the Boulton Bridge. The foam was spotted in Ipswich on Monday. (Image: Paul…

As we overheat and degrade our planet, more people are likely to come into contact, sometimes fatally, with venomous snakes. One man hopes to provide an unusual solution to this, after subjecting himself to 200 intentional snakebites to his body. For nearly 20 years, Tim Friede, 58, allowed some of the most lethal snakes in…

On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees in front of him began to display nervous behaviour. They…