Science & Environment

A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks. More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world’s first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions. But President Trump had …

Available for over a year Inside Science explores the science and maths of games: why we play them, how to win them and the rise of gamification in our lives – with a particular focus on The Traitors – in a special programme with a live audience at Green Man Festival in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park. Presenter …

The number of people killed by bears in Japan this year has reached a record high, the country’s environment ministry has said. Seven people have died since April – the highest since 2006 when data was first recorded – with fatalities mostly in north-eastern regions and the northern prefecture of Hokkaido. A 60-year-old man cleaning an outdoor hot spring bath …

Australia’s tropical rainforests have become the first in the world to release more carbon than they absorb, in a trend linked to climate change, a study has found. Rainforests are usually regarded as so-called “carbon sinks” as they absorb more emissions than they emit with new trees offsetting the carbon released by dead ones. But a study looking at data …

Fiona IrvingSouth East environment correspondent BBC The artificial reef covers 820 sq m around the base of a Rampion wind turbine One of the largest artificial reefs in the world has been installed at a wind farm off the Sussex coast. The project at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm is the first of its kind, with 75,000 specially designed “reef …

The UK’s largest undeveloped oil field has revealed the full scale of its environmental impact, should it gain approval by the government. Developers of the Rosebank oil field said nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming gas would be released from using oil products from the field. The amount would vary each year, but by comparison the UK’s annual emissions …

The UK should be prepared to cope with weather extremes as a result of at least 2C of global warming by 2050, independent climate advisers have said. The country was “not yet adapted” to worsening weather extremes already occurring at current levels of warming, “let alone” what was expected to come, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) wrote in a letter …

Red Tractor The Red Tractor advert was last shown in 2023 but will now be banned for future use unless it is updated A TV advert by Red Tractor, the UK’s biggest certifier of farm products on supermarket shelves, has been banned for exaggerating the scheme’s environmental benefits and misleading the public. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled the organisation …

Maddie MolloyBBC Climate & Science reporter Wim van den Heever A brown hyena standing beside the ruins of an abandoned diamond mining settlement has earned wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. He set up his camera trap after spotting fresh hyena tracks in the ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia. It took him …

David McKennaEast Yorkshire and Lincolnshire PA Media Developers say The Tillbridge Solar project near the village of Glentworth in Lincolnshire would power about 300,000 homes Plans for a huge solar farm in Lincolnshire have been given the go-ahead. The Tillbridge Solar project, which would cover around 3,000 acres (1,214 hectares), is classified as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, meaning the …