Science

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.

A severe weather warning is in force across parts of the UK. Meanwhile, in some areas of the USA, at least eight people have been killed as temperatures hit record lows – even colder than the South Pole.

Mr Banks, who has denied any wrongdoing, insisted there was no Russian money and no interference of any kind – declaring the money came from a UK-based limited company, which he owned.

He’s the Israeli historian best known as the author of “Sapiens”, which looked at the evolution of humankind – and now Yuval Harari has published “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” a book warning us how to harness the greatest global revolution to date: the rise of artificial intelligence. Cathy Newman went to meet him…

Three anti-fracking activists have been jailed for causing a public nuisance, after they climbed on to lorries outside a fracking site near Blackpool. The judge at Preston crown court said their actions had also significantly disrupted local residents, who depended on using the surrounding main road.