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Among those who signed the statements made by the Academy of Medical Sciences are Wellcome, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, Pfizer, Life Arc, the Association of Medical Research Charities, the Institute of Cancer Research, the...
Although Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, UN climate expert, acknowledges that the report is "bleak", she says there are reasons to be hopeful: "There is evidence of responses from the public and private sectors, and from NGOs, community organisations,...
By Lebo DisekoGlobal Religion CorrespondentAs politicians meet to discuss how to cut carbon emissions, descendants of Southern Africa's first inhabitants are raising concerns about an oil and gas exploration project. Religious leaders have also spoke...
By Noel Titheradge, Ed Thomas and Chris BellBBC NewsPrivate security patrols are being used to protect crops and expensive farm equipment amid a rural crime wave in England and Wales, the BBC has learned.Farmers have told the BBC that police rarely s...
FABRICE COFFRINI/AFPBy Jessica ParkerBBC Brussels correspondentThe UK and Switzerland are striking a deal on science collaboration as both countries continue to be blocked from a major EU scheme.Political tensions mean the two nations have been shut ...
By Lebo DisekoGlobal Religion CorrespondentAs politicians meet to discuss how to cut carbon emissions, descendants of Southern Africa's first inhabitants are raising concerns about an oil and gas exploration project. Religious leaders have also spoke...
"Some days I just don't want to get out of bed," she says, adding that, because of the rain, seeing friends takes much more effort, exercise is confined to indoors, hanging washing out on the line is basically impossible, and the house feels perpetua...
PA MediaAll poultry in Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex must be kept indoors from Wednesday, as part of a ramping-up of measures to prevent avian flu spreading, the government has said.The affected areas were placed in an Avian Influenza Preventio...
Getty ImagesBy Jonah FisherBBC Environment CorrespondentThe UK has opened a new licensing round for companies to explore for oil and gas in the North Sea. Nearly 900 locations are being offered for exploration, with as many as 100 licences set to be ...
Getty ImagesBy Jonah FisherBBC Environment CorrespondentExploiting new oil and gas fields is "radically at odds" with the UK's commitments to fight climate change, according to a new report. Researchers from Global Energy Monitor (GEM) also calculate...
A US astronaut has become the first Native American woman in space following a Nasa launch on Wednesday, Marine Colonel Nicole Mann, 45, is one of four astronauts who blasted off from Florida at midday bound for the International Space Station (ISS)....
SPLBy Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondentOne of the worst forms of plastic pollution may have met its match in the saliva of a humble worm.Spanish researchers say they've discovered chemicals in the wax worm's drool that break down polyethylene, a ...
Getty ImagesBy Justin RowlattClimate editorEgypt, which is hosting this year's COP27 UN climate summit in November, has warned the UK not to "backtrack" on the global climate agenda.The unusual intervention followed press reports that Prime Minister ...
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics rewards research into quantum mechanics - the science that describes nature at the smallest scales. The award goes to Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger. Their work should pav...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his work on human evolution. The Prize committee said he achieved the seemingly impossible task of cracking the genetic code of one of our extinct relatives - Neanderthal...
PA MediaBy Malcolm PriorBBC News Rural Affairs ProducerAround 48m birds have been culled across the UK and the EU in the last year as a result of the largest outbreak of avian flu on record.In the UK, 161 cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H...
"It's about 8,200 years old," says Dr Alison Burns, pointing to a perfectly preserved human footprint pressed into ancient mud on Formby Beach. It is one of hundreds of newly discovered ancient footprints here. The sandy stretch of the north-west Eng...
Roskosmos A Russian cosmonaut had to urgently abandon his spacewalk "due to a battery power issue" on his spacesuit, the US space agency Nasa says. It says Oleg Artemyev was ordered back by Russian controllers on the ground to the airlock of the Inte...
Getty ImagesFrom all the pictures of parched fields, dusty soil and dried-up reservoirs, it might appear obvious there's a drought.But from a scientific point of view, it's more complicated than that.There's no one definition of drought - it's differ...
Why our world would end if life technologies disappeared. Why wholesale accessories should be 1 of the 7 deadly sins. How home tech gadgets made me a better person. Will dollar general applications ever rule the world? Will geek ideas ever rule the w...
