Browsing: Environment

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.H5N1 bird flu has been making a lot of headlines since last year, and for good reason:…

Labour ministers have scrapped a promise by the previous government for a £950m fund for installing electric car chargers near motorways, instead setting aside a smaller…

Eight police officers linger with their backs to the two-hectare (five-acre) site known as Stocamine. The place is nondescript in the morning drizzle: two mine shafts,…

The government is to slash green levies on thousands of businesses, in an effort to bring down sky-high energy costs for firms and boost the manufacturing…

Dr Véronique Paris has a hands-on approach to her research — she lets hundreds of mosquitoes bite her arm in order to feed and maintain her…

Can Tesla’s Cybercab Share the Road with America’s Myth of the Highway?For more than a century, cars have meant freedom, escape and self-reinvention to Americans. Now…

Tens of millions of people across the midwest and east braced on Sunday for another sweltering day of dangerously hot temperatures as a rare June heatwave…

The heatwave that gripped much of the UK this week was the latest sweltering reminder that the climate emergency is already making daily life more volatile.Many…

Lenders trying to take control of Thames Water are attempting to thwart environmental campaigners by asking the government to block them from pursuing high court claims.Creditors…

Filipe Gomes had been craving fresh air and quiet routine when he and his partner quit the chaos of London’s catering industry for the fog-misted hills…