COP26: World needs to act, says PM, as Prince Charles joins call for action
The simplest way of explaining it, is that climate is the average weather in a place over many years, so...
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Climate change: What’s it like living in a place where it’s 50C?
Patrick Michell, chief of the Kanaka Bar First Nation, first began noticing worrying changes in the forest near his reserve...
COP26: Four number that set the stage for climate change negotiations
Leaders from 120 countries will be there, but Russian President Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping and Jair Bolsonaro from Brazil...
Climate change: Polls shows rising demand for government action
"In advance of the COP21 meeting in Paris in 2015, global public opinion exhibited relatively strong expectations for governments to...
Budget 2021: How green is Chancellor Rishi Sunak?
Darren Caplan, chief executive of the Railway Industry Association (RIA), said: "Whilst it is positive to see confirmation of what...
Neutrino result heralds new chapter in physics
Current theories suggest that, shortly after the Big Bang, there were equal amounts of matter and its shadowy mirror-image anti-matter....
Life at 50C: Surviving in Kuwait’s ‘unbearable’ heat
The Middle East is warming faster than much of the world, and Kuwait is careering towards unbearable temperatures. With the...
MPs say UK research frozen because of Brexit delay
The EU's Earth mapping effort, Copernicus, is similarly affected by the delay. This affects UK aerospace companies wanting to bid...
Climate change: The environmental disasters we’ve almost fixed
However, Canadian scientist John Smol, a young researcher back in the 1980s, says in many ways acid rain was a...
How can Coca-Cola solve its plastic problem?
Coca-Cola sells over 100 billion throwaway plastic bottles every year. So many of them end up as litter that new...
Inside the Indonesian cave where oldest animal art was found
Archaeologists discovered the world’s oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia. A panel showing wild pigs believed to have been...
Wales curriculum: New science GCSE prompts dumbing down fears
Eluned Parrott, head of Wales at the Institute of Physics, said: "I think having a single root for all the...
Climate change: How technology is helping cities tackle climate disasters
"Businesses need to get up defences, protect key assets and arrive at the scene faster, if there is a warning,"...
Kenyan northern white rhino Najin retired from breeding scheme
"Retiring one individual from a conservation programme because of animal welfare considerations is usually not a question to think about...
COP26: PM warned over aid cuts ahead of climate summit
It went on: "The ability of the UK to act as a genuine, trusted partner for developing countries is of...
Covid vaccine pioneer: Lives depend on science funding
Prof Sarah Main, who is the campaign's executive director, said that without the investment that has been promised, the UK...
What is Climate Justice?
Many of the countries worst affected by climate change have contributed least to the emissions that cause it.So where should...
Is the UK’s green plan enough to halt climate change?
These include building the £120bn rail project HS2, with all its energy-intensive concrete; construction of £27bn worth of roads; allowing...
