Science & Environment


A man paddles his water taxi down the Buriganga River, which flows through the heart of Dhaka

Turning the tide on Bangladesh’s plastic pollution

ByStuart ButlerMar 26, 2025
Can Bangladesh’s new government save the rivers on which the country depends?
Lynmouth Power Station on the Northumberland coast

Can wood-burning power stations ever be sustainable?

ByLogan GourlayMar 18, 2025
Despite emitting more carbon than coal, the government backs Lynemouth’s green credentials—granting its owner £700 million in subsidies. Christine Ro and Tom Brown investigate
Plastic on finger

Can we stop the planet from being swamped by plastic?

ByMark RoweMar 13, 2025

Mark Rowe reports on the failure to agree on an international treaty to limit plastic pollution and what our best…

Massive ocean mission discovers more than 800 new species

Massive ocean mission discovers more than 800 new species

ByBryony CottamMar 10, 2025
Ocean Census, the world’s largest collaborative effort to accelerate the discovery of marine life, reveals 866 newly-found marine species
Extreme snowy weather UK

Geo explainer: What is a polar vortex collapse?

ByVictoria HeathMar 6, 2025
Learn more about polar vortex collapse - the weather phenomenon likely to cause cold snap across much of UK in coming weeks
Smart connection network system, smart city network concept, 5G wireless connection.

How is the world building for a better future?

ByVictoria HeathMar 5, 2025
From Denmark's floating wind farms to Singapore's AI-driven traffic management systems, learn how the world is gearing up for the future
Carbon footprint concept, meat consumption and CO2 emissions, meat on co2-shaped plate, abstraction

What is carbon food labelling – and how can it help the planet?

ByVictoria HeathFeb 27, 2025
Carbon food labelling may make consumers swap out foodstuffs with high climate footprint for more planet-friendly meals
The new study led by the University of Cambridge has revealed that as our springs and summers get hotter and drier, the UK wildfire season is being stretched and intensified.

Geo explainer: The growing problem of UK wildfires

ByVictoria HeathFeb 24, 2025
New research shows wildfire season is becoming more intense in the UK. Discover more about where - and why - wildfires happen in the country
Onboard the ocean adventurer sailing out into the Drake Passage

Geo explainer: Why is the Drake Passage so feared?

ByVictoria HeathFeb 20, 2025
Discover more about the Drake Passage that leads to Antarctica, and why its waters can be some of the roughest in the world...
Boone Hall, one of more than 300 former plantations in Charleston, South Carolina

Strontium: the metal with remarkable powers to help track ancestral roots

ByBryony CottamFeb 20, 2025
A new map of Africa that uses strontium could help descendants of the transatlantic slave trade to finally trace their roots
Baarle Hertog, Belgium and Baarle Nassau, the Netherlands October 10, 2019. The most complicated International border in Europe. Baarle territory is divided into a bits of Belgian and Netherlands

Phenomena: What are enclaves and exclaves?

ByGrace GourlayFeb 20, 2025

Discover more about the complex world of enclaves and exclaves, along with the geopolitical patchwork they form Enclaves and exclaves…

salt flat lithium extraction league in chile

Lithium: the ‘white gold’ powering the world

ByVictoria HeathFeb 17, 2025
Vital for many technologies and the clean energy sector, lithium is coveted. Four countries produce this 'white gold', but not without environmental impacts
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