Science

A report published today on a plan for a national food strategy did not just deal with what we eat, but also how we produce it in a sustainable way.

The billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson has made it into the edge of space on board his own rocket ship, as the Virgin Atlantic craft made its first fully crewed test flight beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

Despite rising Covid infections and the threat of new variants, the UK government promises when England exits lockdown on July 19, it will be for the very last time. But is that a promise they can keep?

ExxonMobil say they’re committed to a greener planet, to having a carbon tax, and that they’re listening to the science when it comes to climate change. But is there more to the story?

It is their harshest language yet. The government’s own advisory body on climate change has accused ministers of being shockingly unprepared for the climate crisis and failing to listen to its advice.

Ever wondered if claims from businesses that they are going green are too good to be true? You’re not alone. A new expert body has been tasked by the government to tackle the problem of ‘greenwashing’ by setting out what constitutes a truly environmentally-sustainable investment.

In January last year, more than 100 ordinary members of the public met in Birmingham to begin taking part in the UK’s first climate assembly. They were given a crash course in climate change science and were then asked to come up with a list of recommendations for how the country should reach net-zero emissions…

Four astronauts have made it safely back to Earth in a capsule made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country’s politicians must act more quickly to reduce emissions.

The former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is now the finance advisor for the COP 26 climate summit and a UN Special Envoy on Climate Action.

It was an astonishing turnaround from the days of Donald Trump, who thumbed his nose at climate change science and pulled out of the Paris Accord.

For the nomadic people of Ethiopia’s Afar region, an area known as the “cradle of humanity” and once famed for the discovery of a three-million-year-old fossil named Lucy, action on climate change can not come soon enough.

NASA scientists created history yesterday when they flew a small helicopter on Mars – an epic achievement, over 170,000,000 miles from Earth.

The government has announced a rapid acceleration in its targets to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur behind the Tesla electric car brand is celebrating more success today after his SpaceX project was selected by Nasa to build the next moon lander. The $3 billion dollar project will try to land people on the moon by 2024, which would be 55 years since Neil Armstrong made history…