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Petrified rocks sent back by visitors who stole them from park

These chunks of ancient petrified trees proved irresistible to light-fingered visitors. But was it guilt or a mystical curse that prompted their return?

Regulars

Indian villagers throw containers attached to ropes into a well to collect their daily supply of potable water after a tanker made its daily delivery at Shahapur, some 130 km southwest of Mumbai, on May 13, 2016

Earth

India's drought foretells of greater struggles as climate warms

Comment

Forever, Ai Weiwei, is a sculpture made of bicycles

Life

Megacities Asia challenges the utopian view of smart cities

Culture

Mangrove in Mahakam Delta 80% destroyed because of tiger shrimp farm, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Earth

A fifth of all plants threatened as habitats shrink worldwide

News

A core being inspected

Earth

Seabed core reveals how lush Antarctica changed to icy desert

News

Rainclouds roll in over a field

Earth

Rain spawns more rain when it falls on ploughed land

News

A road with a coffee sign

Environment

Recycled coffee grounds could make roads smoother and greener

News

seed bank

Life

A new politics of climate change could save the world

Culture

A plane flies over the icey Antarctic landscape

Earth

Huge never-before-seen lake spotted hiding under Antarctic ice

News

Arjen Hoekstra

Earth

We can avoid a water crisis, but the fix will be hard to swallow

High water use in drought-prone areas is folly, says Arjen Hoekstra. It's time we acknowledge that we must change what we eat and how we produce it

Opinion

Earth

A looming water crisis demands creative thinking

Leader

Earth

Victorians experienced early climate change but missed the signs

News

Earth

Do flatlining emissions make Paris climate deal more realistic?

Insight

Earth

Trees share vital goodies through a secret underground network

News