Planet and plastic: End of the love story?
On top of everything else, the coronavirus pandemic has led to an increase in plastic waste across the world.Experts estimate...
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Erin Brockovich: California water battle ‘woke me up’
In Flint, the state, as cost-cutting measure, stopped bringing in water from nearby Detroit and instead switched the water supply...
Sport urged to drop high carbon sponsorship deals
Chemicals giant Ineos runs the cycling team Ineos Grenadiers featuring Chris FroomeSports teams and competitions have been urged to drop...
‘Sonic boom’ in Dorset blamed on ‘fireball meteor’
Speaking to BBC Radio Somerset, astronomer and science journalist Will Gater, who was among the first to link the sonic...
Skylab: The myth of the mutiny in space
It's been almost half a century since the three astronauts on board the Skylab 4 space mission famously fell out...
Do the Shetland Islands need a tunnel vision?
In Shetland you're never more than three miles from the sea, and the ferries which connect the islands are a...
Police warn students to avoid science website
"If you're tricked into revealing your log-in credentials, whether it's through the use of fake emails or malware, we know...
Protect our ocean ‘to solve challenges of century’
"Often times we think about protection as just being about saving the whales, but the oceans provide so much more...
Sir David Attenborough answers dinosaur query from Otis, 4
"There's something really special and poignant about a 94-year-old conservationist, who has spent his life working to save the planet,...
Iceland shaken by more than 50,000 earthquakes in three weeks
Iceland has recorded more than 50,000 earthquakes in the past three weeks.This unusual activity indicates a volcanic eruption is on...
Sea-cucumber divers off Liberia risk danger to feed a hunger in China
But 37-year-old Abdoulaye Mansaray had been wise to the possibility since 2013, when Chinese divers operating a few hundred kilometres...
Climate change: Jet fuel from waste ‘dramatically lowers’ emissions
"There's exciting jet fuels that rely on burning trash and dry waste but this actually works for those wastes that...
Etna: Life beneath the volcanic dust of repeated eruptions
Every so often, the volcano's four main craters awake with intense, simultaneous blasts. These episodes create a spectacular natural firework...
Kathleen Folbigg: Could science free Australian jailed for killing babies?
Three years later, in 2018, forensic pathologist, Matthew Orde, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, told the...
Hundreds of sewage leaks detected thanks to AI
Christine Colvin, from the Rivers Trust charity, told BBC News: "We put together the first national map of sewer overspills...
UK environmental protections ‘being flouted’
"Whereas the old approach would ensure big decisions considered issues related to the principles and applied them proportionately to protect...
Fukushima disaster: What happened at the nuclear plant?
At the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the gigantic wave surged over defences and flooded the reactors, sparking a major disaster....
Coronavirus: Divers find Philippine reef covered with single-use face masks
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is washing up on coral reefs close to the Philippine capital, Manila. According to an estimate...
