Environment

Mark PoyntingClimate reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesThe water industry has also welcomed the announcement."It's absolutely critical that we build these reservoirs now," David Henderson, chief executive of Water UK, told BBC News."If we don't build them now, we wait another...

When the computer or phone you’re using right now blinks its last blink and you drop it off for recycling, do you know what happens?At the recycling center, powerful magnets will pull out steel. Spinning...

Long before she stepped into a lab, Ananda Santos Figueiredo was stargazing in Brazil, captivated by the...

Batteries are nearing their limits in terms of how much power they can store for a given...

In Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California, trees that have persisted through rain and shine for thousands of years are now facing multiple threats triggered by a changing climate.Scientists and park managers once...

The world's poorest nations face a "tidal wave of debt" as repayments to China hit record highs in 2025, an Australian think tank warned Tuesday in a new report.China's Belt and Road Initiative lending spree of the 2010s has...

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world, inhabited by early humans.Scattered across the newly created island, scientists have uncovered more than 6,700 fossils of fish, reptiles, and mammals...

U.S. consumer demand for renewable energy continues to grow, with more solar panel capacity installed in 2024 than in 2023, which saw more than in 2022. But U.S. trade policy is in flux, and high...

The Prince of Wales has described Sir David Attenborough as a "big inspiration" to him growing up, and the motivation behind his new wildlife documentary highlighting the work of rangers.In an unexpected appearance at a screening earlier this week,...

Helen BriggsBBC environment correspondent•@hbriggsGetty ImagesIn contrast, smaller sloths living in trees went largely unnoticed and have survived to this day."Living sloths are extremely slow and that's because they have a very low metabolic rate. This is their strategy to...