Environment

Kate Whannel,political reporter,Georgia Roberts,Derby political reporterandJoe Pike,politics investigations correspondentPA MediaIn the 14 months since the initial proposal was announced, there have been regular protests by farmers outside Parliament. Some Labour MPs in rural areas have also expressed concern. At...

“At MIT, innovation ranges from awe-inspiring technology to down-to-Earth creativity,” noted Chronicle, during a campus visit this year...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ice sheet...

Jonah FisherEnvironment correspondentAlongside good news for octopus lovers, the Wildlife Trusts' marine review contains more sobering news.The Trusts say this year was bookended by environmental disasters, with a collision between an oil tanker and a container ship in the...

For the past year, I kept bringing the same story to my editor: quantum computers are on the edge...

Available for 34 daysThis week President Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget announced that a major climate research centre would be broken up. 2025 has brought a wave of reorganisations and funding cuts, reshaping the ways...

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and each other...

Giancarlo RinaldiSouth Scotland reporterGuard Archaeology"What is significant about the Twentyshilling remains is that they were cremated and then buried almost immediately," he said.He said that was unusual as there was "quite a tradition" in the Bronze Age of leaving...

The idea began in California’s Sierra Nevada, a towering spine of rock and ice where rising temperatures and the decline of snowpack are transforming ecosystems, sometimes with catastrophic consequences for wildlife.The prairie-doglike Belding’s ground squirrel...

Everyone – politicians and the public – is talking about energy costs. In particular, they’re talking about data centers that drive artificial intelligence systems and their increasing energy demand, electricity costs and strain on the...