Tennis star Maria Sharapova has admitted taking the banned drug meldonium.

Sharapova is an experienced professional. Strict liability applies. She doped. The more interesting...

One of Oscar Wilde’s more memorable and inspiring aphorisms claimed that a map of the world without utopia on it is not worth looking at. While many might agree with the sentiment, the theory – let alone the practice – looks increasingly difficult and unlikely in the current international environment.

Optimists might...

Each year our terrestrial biosphere absorbs about a quarter of all the carbon dioxide emissions that humans produce. This a very good thing; it helps to moderate the warming produced by human activities...