Former US vice-president still has optimism for climate advocacy two decades after groundbreaking documentary. Two decades after the release of his groundbreaking documentary An…

With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution. Andy Burnham: UK…

Anglers will help scientists investigate the porbeagle, tope and blue shark to boost knowledge and conservation. ‘We have really cool sharks,” says Dr Lucy Hawkes. She is not…

The race to study the North Water between Canada and Greenland before it changes has led to a bold plan for an Inuit-run protected area. Electric-blue meltwater sprays up under…

As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all. The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at…

New York event hears about the red Muppet’s fears during a recent storm as climate crisis increasingly affects children. A generation of political leaders has failed to galvanize…

Forestry England invites people to help it create a record of when and how the season arrives across the country. The reds and golds of autumn leaves may be beginning to appear,…

Author Russell Warfield argues the Green leader’s brand of politics is not new but has evolved in the party over time. Watermelons: the term used to describe the members of the…

People living near a major chemical factory in Lancashire are told they could be at risk of serious health conditions

There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030. Our message to global leaders: we need solar power…

A curious online row over this summer's heatwaves points to a wider - and worrying - shift in climate science

Last year, remnants of a typhoon damaged homes, infrastructure and an archaeological dig site. Now, archaeologists are trying to get as many objects out as possible before the…

The U.S. gets nearly a third of its pork from Iowa. One family is making the switch from pigs to more sustainable specialty mushrooms and trying to show other pig farmers how they…

Eastern monarch butterflies are flying more than 2,000 miles south, through the central U.S., to overwinter in Mexico. We look at a project aimed to help the pollinators along…

Scientists found unequal impact of the climate crisis would not be reversed even if implicit goal of the 2015 Paris agreement is achieved. The unequal impact of the climate crisis…

New research links last month’s disaster to fossil fuel pollution. Supporting disaster-hit countries must be at the centre of climate politics. Following a familiar pattern,…

As human development and roads increasingly fragment their habitats, a study suggests traffic noise could be altering the animals’ wake-up call. Dawn has broken, and the air is…

There are warnings over a combination of significantly reduced landfill space and a breakdown of Glasgow's main incinerator

BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle reflects on how it felt to watch history being made

Prime ministers of Australia and Iceland discuss effects on their countries even as some shy away in face of war and inflation. World political leaders are descending on New York…

As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK

State officials say the new SpaceX site will be a $100 billion investment and launch thousands of rockets. Lawmakers helped ease regulations and negotiations were covered under…

This year’s ‘super' El Niño currently heating up the planet has surpassed the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before it has even reached its…

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A new study says climate change was a likely factor in the massive flood on the Nepal-Tibet border last month

As three siblings came of age and had to leave their pack, scientists tracked the dogs’ perilous 2,500-mile odyssey to find their own territory. It sounds like a Disney movie:…

The BBC's Courtney Sargent explains how El Niño could have rapidly turned Hurricane Polo into one of the Pacific season's most powerful storms

The question of how important making our electricity clean is to going green is coming under increasing scrutiny

OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much

EVs with 90,000 to 120,000 miles on the clock are more likely to pass MOTs than petrol models of the same age. Motorists buying a secondhand car with a lot of miles on the clock…

Scientists say the developing El Niño is now the strongest on record with weather impacts already being felt around the world

Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into treating viruses and cancer in humans. In the northern forests of the…

The structure consisted of two posts that lined up with the solstices 5,000 years ago

Scientists have found a species they've named the fire amoeba, which is capable of reproducing at 145°F and continuing to move up to temperatures of 147°F — a record for complex…

Four states will vote on abortion-related ballot measures in November. The measures follow the Supreme Court's "Dobbs" decision, which upended federal abortion protections

Critically endangered Bornean orangutans flee forests as staff at Rangkong research station work round the clock to stave off blaze. Wildfires in Indonesia are sweeping through a…

More than 40,000 of the cases – which range from mild coughs to pneumonia – involve toddlers

Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences?

The lions were found dead inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a popular wildlife reserve in Tanzania. Deaths raise concerns over wildlife poisonings in East Africa

The BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale explains what an arms race in space might look like - and what it could mean for us on the ground

As the astronauts pass behind the Moon they will experience a moment of silence and solitude as communication with the Earth is blocked

The Saving Wildcats partnership is keeping an eye on the latest wildcats being bred in captivity for release into the Cairngorms

Hurricane Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades, and it was expected to skirt Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm

New study finds subsidence caused by groundwater extraction can take place as far as 20km from site of mine. The impact of opencast mining goes far beyond the edge of the pit.…

India has rapidly decarbonised electricity generation, but its gains are tempered by transmission shortages

Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero became the first scientist to find the remains of a dinosaur in Antarctica in 1986

Photographers from all over the world entered more than 24,000 images into the world’s largest bird photography competition , with an image of a northern gannet bursting through…

The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice. Iceland will submit a bill in…

More than three million people in the UK work night shifts, which can greatly impact their health. What can be done to help them?

The fall equinox, which arrives Tuesday in the U.S., brings shorter days, and chances to witness alignment between Earth and the sun. It's a modern version of ancient observances…

A pair of grey squirrels was reportedly brought to the United Kingdom by a Cheshire banker in 1876

The fossil, collected in Antarctica in 1985, is part of the tail of a beast called a Titanosaur

Each autumn the traditional alpabzug (descent of herds) sees farmers in Switzerland move their livestock from mountain pastures down to valley barns. In the Griesalp area above…

The group is marking a decade of fishing everything from an inflatable doll to a Nintendo out of the harbour

Ever since the earliest known recording of whale song was made in 1949 , researchers have been captivated by the wails, rumbles, clicks, grunts and squeals of their communication.…

The cash can be used by local communities to protect threatened green spaces and wildlife sites

Growers are facing losses of £10m, as 30 million heads of lettuce will be rendered unusable

Ali Alobaidly is named Astronomy Photographer of the Year for his image of the Shark Nebula

The zoo near Canterbury says glutinous snails started laying eggs on their way to Kent

Divers from the Northampton Scuba School team up with other local organisations for a clean-up

The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth's orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities

The announcement by the US points to a developing field of modern warfare in the Earth's orbit

September's full Moon will rise across on Saturday 26 September. The best viewing conditions currently look to be across southern and eastern parts of the UK

Might the UK and US joining their AI forces help solve nuclear fusion?

Prof Stuart Russell offers some advice following a report into July’s Hugging Face hack

Researchers may have discovered the signature of a bit of dark matter

The datacentres are coming, potentially in the hundreds