Science

Now Greenland has one thing to say to Donald Trump: we’re not for sale. Following reports that the US President had shown an interest in buying the territory, almost a quarter of the size of the USA itself, Greenland’s government said they were flattered by the interest, but weren’t on the market.

July was the hottest month on Earth since records began, according to meteorologists. All this week we’ve been reporting from Greenland on the dramatic impact global warming is having on the ice shelf. Scientists say Greenland’s ice is melting at a rate they were not expecting to see until 50 years time. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson…

Our chief correspondent Alex Thomson is in the Arctic, where he’s making a special report to be broadcast soon. 

A heatwave is gripping the arctic, and Greenland’s ice sheet is melting away on a scale not seen for years, threatening a rise in sea levels.

We debate the impact of farming on the climate crisis.

The changes in our climate are affecting the ability of the land we live on to sustain human life.  

As England braces itself for a bit of a heatwave this weekend, temperatures in France soared to the hottest on record today, hitting 45.9 degrees Celsius in one southern town.

Wildlife and habitats across the world are declining at an “unprecedented” rate – putting up to a million species of plants and animals at risk of extinction.

The first privately-funded mission to the moon has ended rather abruptly.

Brexit and black holes: could there be more of a gift to the political satirists?

The heartbreak of knowing your child has a rare, incurable disease, then finding out a drug is available which might help to slow its progression, before that glimpse of hope is snatched away.

Social media platforms like Facebook should be subject to compulsory new regulations to stop the spread of disinformation.

More than 5,000 patients across England who have suffered fractures in the past year will need to have their X-rays reviewed, after a hospital trust reported a mix-up in the type of metal plates used to mend the break.

Pesticides, pollution and climate change are all wiping out insects at an alarming rate – so much, that a new global review says they could vanish within a century.

Fracking company Cuadrilla warns that safety rules on earthquakes, which result from fracking, are too strict and must be relaxed.