Science

Throughout the pandemic, Paddy Worrall and his award-winning Channel 4 News FactCheck team have crunched the data and the challenged government soundbites, and he joins us today to discuss how to vaccinate a nation.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has imposed a full lockdown across the mainland from midnight tonight. In a statement to an emergency session of the Scottish Parliament, the first minister said schools would remain closed until February at the earliest, with a legal requirement for everyone to stay at home, except for essential reasons. The…

Christina Pagel is a health research mathematician and member of the Independent SAGE group.

Our North of England Correspondent, Clare Fallon, has been looking at sport and the long-term effects of head injuries.

From getting a third-class degree in chemistry, to inventing what could be the world’s first zero-plastics bottle – it’s been quite a journey for James Longcroft. 

We are joined by Katie Neild from Client Earth, an organisation that fights for environmental causes through the courts, and Gavin Davies from the GMB union, who represents workers at Heathrow Airport.

We spoke to Rosamund Adoo Kissi-Debrah, Ella’s mother, and asked what this verdict meant to her personally.

In a landmark ruling, a coroner has recorded air pollution as a cause of death after an inquest into the death of a nine-year-old girl. Ella Kissi-Debrah died after a fatal asthma attack seven years ago. Now this is the first time air pollution has ever been listed as a cause on a death certificate…

Tomorrow will mark the fifth anniversary of the historic Paris Agreement when the world pledged to keep the global average temperature rise to below two degrees celsius. 

When Donald Trump responded to the California wildfires by saying it would “start getting cooler”, it was a prime example of the president’s climate change scepticism that has partly defined his tenure in the White House. 

Beavers were reintroduced into the wild in Scotland more than a decade ago and given protected status last year. Now, numbers are thriving – but not everyone is happy. Some landowners want the animals gone because they say they are causing damage. But 105,000 hectares of woodland – considered the perfect habitat – can’t be…

The government has launched what it’s described as a “green industrial revolution” to tackle climate change, including more nuclear power, wind and solar energy – and phasing out the sale of petrol and diesel cars over the next 10 years. We spoke to climate scientist Prof Hannah Cloke and began by asking her what she…

Phasing out petrol and diesel cars. A town heated entirely by hydrogen. Enough offshore wind to power every home in the country. These are some of the grand ambitions in Boris Johnson’s new 10-point plan to turn the UK into a world leader in tackling climate change. But critics say the prime minister’s green revolution…

Can a vaccine that’s been developed at breakneck speed really be safe?

We were joined by Sir Mark Walport and Devi Sridhar.