Environment

Global warming, the observed increase in the Earth’s average global surface temperature since preindustrial (1850-1900) times, currently stands at around 1.63 degrees Celsius. While this number is expected to continue to rise, local temperatures will not go up uniformly...

For centuries, infrastructure has evolved alongside technology. New materials and engineering techniques enabled taller buildings, longer bridges, and larger cities. Computing and digital technologies later transformed how infrastructure was designed, monitored, and operated.Now, the pace of change is accelerating,...

A bank of white freezers hums away at a former watch factory in central London. Inside: dozens of small boxes with barcoded glass tubes, collectively containing one hundred billion genes. Just two boxes may hold 10 times more information...

A mosquito buzzing in your backyard may seem like a minor annoyance. But these tiny insects, with their taste for human blood, are increasingly appearing in areas where they were once rare or absent, and...

Strong winds are expected to continue across Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland on Tuesday, after Storm Boelo brought flooding and power cuts to thousands over the weekend.While conditions are set to improve for much of the UK after...

Each year, Climate Week NYC brings together more than 100,000 people in more than 1,000 events across the city to discuss climate challenges, explore solutions, and spur action. Participants come from industry, academia, philanthropy, nonprofits, government, and finance and...

The melting ice sheets of this remote continent are just one of many aspects of polar science that Amos reported on while at the BBC. He also covered colossal icebergs, the fate of penguin colonies and a BBC exclusive...

Now suppose the map-maker is handed a list of past crimes and where they took place, and asked to shade in where the next ones are likely to happen. Police then patrol the shaded areas.More crime is recorded there...

Among the successes of the Biosphere's first decade was the return of juniper, a native shrub that had been lost from the island.The last native plant on the island was dug up from Glen Auldyn in 1947 in an...

The Prince of Wales has made a surprise appearance on the Graham Norton Show, as part of a special edition to mark the Earthshot Prize.During the episode, which airs on Friday, he joined Cate Blanchett, Robert Irwin and Hannah...