Science

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.

Could there be the light at the end of the tunnel? Scientists working on a new vaccine for coronavirus say they have a candidate that is 90% effective. And, crucially, there are no serious side effects. The news comes as the number of cases worldwide hit a record 50 million, with the US becoming the…

Could this be the beginning of the next giant leap for humankind – after scientists at the US space agency Nasa said they’d found unambiguous evidence of water on sunlit parts of the moon’s surface?

Young, healthy volunteers in the UK could be deliberately exposed to the Coronavirus under highly controlled conditions to speed up the development of a vaccine.

Labour MP Debbie Abrahams joined us from her Oldham constituency to talk about new rules that will be imposed on Greater Manchester.

Boris Johnson announces that the whole of Greater Manchester would be put under Tier 3 restrictions from the end of this week.

We speak to Prof Christina Pagel and Prof Steve Reicher.