From Kenyan children picking through plastic waste to swathes of Germany laid waste for coal mining, a film shows why we are in a new, human-created epoch… Read the rest
Category Archives: Environment
Quakes prompt UK fracking operations to pause several times
A rash of recent earthquakes in Lancashire, UK has prompted fracking operations to halt temporarily on six separate occasions… Read the rest
Why Earth’s water could be older than Earth itself
How did water survive Earth’s searingly hot birth? A radical new answer turns planetary history on its head – and could revolutionise the search for alien life… Read the rest
Climate change: ‘Wetlands vital to protect cities’
Urban areas need to cherish wetlands as a natural defence against flooding, experts warn.… Read the rest
Potholes: Why do we have so many of them?
The chancellor says councils in England will get an extra £420m in his Budget to fix potholes.… Read the rest
HS2 construction: Moving the remains of 40,000 people
Work begins to exhume thousands of skeletons to make way for HS2 construction.… Read the rest
Mum’s voice makes better smoke alarm for children
Many more children woke up to a voice-based alarm than a traditional one, a study found.… Read the rest
Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
A new US study says that several low-cost technologies can be deployed right now to limit global warming.… Read the rest
Kurtis Baute: Scientist leaves airtight dome after 15 hours
Kurtis Baute spent 15 hours in an airtight dome to raise awareness about climate change.… Read the rest
Clever crows reveal ‘window into the mind’
The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.… Read the rest