Environment

March, in the northern hemisphere anyway, is about venturing out for some much-needed vitamin D and dodging showers. Forget...

To avoid the worst effects of climate change, many billions of metric tons of industrially generated carbon...

Available for 33 daysThis week Inside Science comes from Space Comm Expo in London, one of the biggest space conferences in the world. Tom Whipple explores the conference with Suzie Imber, Professor of Planetary Science at the University of...

The past three years have been the world’s hottest on record by far, with 2025 almost tied with 2023 for second place. With that energy came extreme weather, from flash flooding to powerful hurricanes and...

Plant growth is supported by millions of tiny soil microbes competing and cooperating with each other as...

The fall is astonishing. At its height, the global fertility rate hit 5.3 births per woman in 1963, but...

Iran invented the relatively simple Shahed 136 attack drone, but is now fending off US copies launched against it...

Spreading crushed silicate rocks like basalt on fields could remove up to 1.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from...

Mehdi Namazi wants to sell you quantum entanglement. He and his colleagues at Qunnect have spent nearly a decade building...

Each April in Japan, people participate in a tradition called “hanami,” or cherry-blossom viewing, where they picnic...