Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Copper miners are turning to vast waste piles, novel extraction technologies and even bacterial “bugs” in an ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, originally from Southeast Asia and introduced through the pet trade. The non-venomous constrictors disrupt the ecosystem by preying on native ...

For thousands of years, societies around the world have used mushrooms for their perceived beneficial effects on the human immune system. The famous Greek physician Hippocrates was among those that ...