Science

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…

Once touted as a controversial idea, carbon capture is increasingly seen as a crucial weapon in the battle against global heating. In the run up to the crucial COP26 climate summit in Glasgow later this year, the Science Museum has a new exhibition – the first of its kind – to look at the technologies…

They’re essential to the future of our environment and the fight against climate change, but a new report warns that the UK’s native woodlands have reached a crisis point, with just a handful in good condition. The survey, by the Woodland Trust, has identified a range of threats, from development to pollution and imported pests…

Is the AstraZeneca jab safe? Spoiler alert: yes, probably. So why has it been dominating the headlines for weeks? And do broken promises and missed targets mean that the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccination is under threat? 

Dale Vince is a green energy industrialist and owner of ‘Ecotricity’. He’s also the owner of perhaps the greenest and only vegan football club, The Forest Green Rovers.

In recent years, we’ve lost many of the heroes of England’s World Cup winning team of ‘66 – and many of them suffered from dementia. Clare Fallon has been looking at sport and the long-term effects of head injuries.