Environment science

A bacterial culture

This tiny bacteria could change air travel forever

Australian scientists have discovered the world's largest plant

World’s largest plant: 180km long seagrass discovered in Australia

Coral reefs with their extraordinarily vivid colours which range from green, brown, pink, yellow, red, purple or blue.

Scientists have warned that 90% of coral reefs could die in 30 years

Scientific research ship, Marion DuFresne near the Crozet Islands

The only inhabitants of this unknown territory are climate scientists

The Earth 300 will be 300m long.

Would you pay €2 million to board this nuclear-powered superyacht?

The date palm tree born from a 2000-year-old seed

Ancient seeds defy sell-by 'date' to become oldest ever germinated

09/10/2021

Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann share the Nobel Prize for physics

How these Nobel Prize winning scientists foresaw climate change

07/10/2021

One of NASA's super pressure balloons used in the 2020 New Zealand Campaign. The Harvard University backed project will likely be similar to this balloon.

Can a huge balloon dropping chalk from sky help slow climate change?

23/03/2021

A man filming on a snowy backdrop.

Do environmental documentaries actually change our bad habits?

07/10/2020

Matthew Wilkinson from Forest Research setting up the sensors which will use IoT technology to support researchers.

'Internet of Things' is being used to help trees fight climate change

29/07/2020

Aurora australis near the South Pole Atmospheric Research Observatory in Antarctica.

Historic ban on hairsprays helps ozone layer to heal

27/03/2020

Three environment stories that passed you by due to Covid-19 coverage

Three environment stories that passed you by due to Covid-19 coverage

21/03/2020

Female lion (Panthera leo) in the Zambezi Region of Namibia

AI from Google is helping identify animals deep in the rainforest

24/12/2019

Celebrities and governments have launched campaigns to plant more trees in an effort to combat climate change.

Is the science driving tree planting trends ‘dangerously misleading’?

20/11/2019