Science & Environment

USC The single-dose vaccine aims to stop the spread and severity of the disease A world-first vaccine which could save Australia’s endangered koala population from a rampant chlamydia epidemic has now been approved by a federal regulator. University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) scientists spent more than a decade developing a vaccine to curb the spread of the disease – …

Mark PoyntingClimate and science reporter, BBC News Getty Images Plans to fight climate change by manipulating the Arctic and Antarctic environment are dangerous, unlikely to work and could distract from the need to ditch fossil fuels, dozens of polar scientists have warned. These polar “geoengineering” techniques aim to cool the planet in unconventional ways, such as artificially thickening sea-ice or …

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Kevin KeaneEnvironment, energy and rural affairs correspondent, BBC Scotland BBC Shell said the ruling would allow work to progress on the project The oil company Shell has submitted a fresh environmental impact assessment for the controversial Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. The company was forced to produce a new assessment after a successful legal challenge by the environmental …

Watch: Underwater footage shows the polar vessel colonised with sea life Rebecca Morelle, Alison Francis and Kevin ChurchBBC News Science One of the most famous polar shipwrecks has been filmed in detail on the sea floor for the first time. The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to reach the South Pole more than …

Ali Abbas AhmadiBBC News, Toronto Canadian Space Agency A computer generated image of what the lunar vehicle could look like on the Moon In a shopping plaza an hour outside Toronto, flanked by a day spa and a shawarma joint, sits a two-storey building with blue tinted windows reflecting the summer sun. It is the modest headquarters of Canadensys Aerospace, …

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said her party will remove all net zero requirements on oil and gas companies drilling in the North Sea if elected. Badenoch is to formally announce the plan to focus solely on “maximising extraction” and to get “all our oil and gas out of the North Sea” in a speech in Aberdeen on Tuesday. Reform …

Esme Stallard and Justin RowlattClimate and science team Sean Gallup/Getty Images It is smaller than your fingernail, but this hairy beetle is one of the biggest single threats to the UK’s forests. The bark beetle has been the scourge of Europe, killing millions of spruce trees, yet the government thought it could halt its spread to the UK by checking …

Malcolm PriorRural affairs producer BBC Live army manoeuvres have caused 385 wildfires on MoD training sites across the UK countryside since 2023 Live-fire military training has sparked hundreds of wildfires across the UK countryside since 2023, with unexploded shells often making it too dangerous to tackle them. Fire crews battling a vast moorland blaze in North Yorkshire this month have …