Environment

Justin Rowlatt,Climate editor and Jessica Cruz,South America producerBBC / Tony JolliffeThe Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it.The ban - which prohibits the sale of...

Georgina RannardClimate and science reporter, Belém, BrazilGetty ImagesAnd there are questions around how much they can be scaled up. If açaí production was expanded into many industrial-size plantations, it could start to cause exactly the same problems that people...

A woolly mammoth that was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years has yielded the world’s oldest...

Two new data centers in Silicon Valley have been built but can’t begin processing information: The equipment that would supply them with electricity isn’t available.It’s just one example of a crisis facing the U.S. power...

Available for over a yearThis week the UK government set out its vision for a world where the use of animals in science is eliminated in all but exceptional circumstances. Animal experiments in the UK peaked at 4.14 million...

“MIT.nano is essential to making progress in high-priority areas where I believe that MIT has a responsibility...

Gareth Lewis,Wales political editor and Steffan Messenger,Wales environment correspondentBBCA first-of-its-kind nuclear power station is to be built on Anglesey, bringing up to 3,000 jobs and billions of pounds of investment.The plant at Wylfa, on the Welsh island's northern coast,...

A Chinese plant scientist at the University of Michigan who drew national attention in June 2025 when she was arrested and accused of smuggling a crop-damaging fungus into the U.S. pleaded guilty on Nov. 12,...

If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to global...

Picture an electric car that could go 600, 700 or even 1,000 miles on a single charge. That’s much farther than the longest-range electric vehicles on the U.S. market, according to Car and Driver magazine...