Environment

Our environmental and social problems are pressing and, in many countries, money is short and politics deadlocked. Wouldn’t it...

Mark PoyntingClimate researcherReutersGareth Redmond-King, head of international programme at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said that weather extremes fuelled by climate change were already hitting food production in some parts of the world."This is a cost-of-living crisis, driving...

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has sharply increased electricity and water consumption, raising concerns about the technology’s environmental footprint and carbon emissions. But the story is more complicated than that.I study emerging technologies and...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the region’s most persistent environmental problems. They...

Esme Stallard,Climate and science reporterandJustin Rowlatt,Climate EditorAndrew Aitchison/Getty ImagesHouseholds will be eligible for thousands of pounds' worth of solar panels and other green tech to lower their energy bills, the government has announced.The long-awaited Warm Homes Plan promises to...

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings...

Helen Briggs,Environment correspondentandGwyndaf Hughes,Science videographerConservation biologist, Dr Rebecca Thomas, of Royal Holloway, University of London, who is not connected with the study, said gardens are increasingly becoming important habitats for hedgehogs as numbers fall in the countryside."The best thing...

“I went into the military right after high school, mostly because I didn’t really see the value...

Quantum computing seems to pop up in the news pretty often these days. You’ve probably seen quantum chips gracing...

President Donald Trump appears to have upended an 85-year relationship between American farmers and the United States’ global exercise of power. But that link has been fraying since the end of the Cold War, and...