Environment

The bark of a single tree can be home to trillions of bacteria, and these microbes may have an...

Malcolm Priorrural affairs producerPA MediaThe raising of the tax threshold was seen by critics as a climbdown following months of protest over the original plans that were announced in chancellor Rachel Reeves' first budget in 2024.But Reynolds told the...

With Congress back in session, legislators will take up a set of issues they haven’t comprehensively addressed since 2018 – the year the last farm bill passed.Farm bills are massive pieces of legislation that address...

Massachusetts is uniquely positioned to become a leader in climate tech, said Emily Reichert MBA ’12, the...

Butchering an elephant is an extraordinarily difficult feat, requiring serious tools and cooperation, with the reward being a protein...

Theo LeggettBusiness CorrespondentGetty ImagesIndustry discounts for electric vehicles are "unsustainable", a major motoring group has warned, as the number of new cars registered in the UK exceeded two million last year for the first time since the pandemic.Nearly 500,000...

When wildfires began racing through the Los Angeles area on Jan. 7, 2025, the scope of the disaster caught residents by surprise. Forecasters had warned about high winds and exceptionally dry conditions, but few people...

A long stretch of humid heat followed by intense thunderstorms is a weather pattern historically seen mostly...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like chimpanzees, or...

Mark Poynting,Climate researcher,Becky Dale,Senior data journalist, BBC VerifyandJess Carr,Data designerGetty ImagesRenewable energy - considered crucial to limiting climate change - produced a record amount of electricity in Great Britain in 2025, BBC analysis shows.Wind was the biggest single renewable...