Mark Poynting and Erwan RivaultBBC Climate & Data teamsPlanet LabsA prolonged dry spell created perfect conditions for wildfiresThe area of…
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Icebergs as large as cities, potentially tens of kilometres wide, once roved the coasts of the UK, according to scientists.Researchers…
China will let scientists from six countries, including the US, examine the rocks it collected from the Moon – a…
Donald Trump has signed a controversial executive order aimed at stepping up deep-sea mining within US and in international waters.The…
Justin RowlattClimate EditorBBCListen to Justin read this articleJust Stop Oil (JSO) activists are dusting down their placards, digging out their…
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has called for countries to cooperate to reduce the risk to global energy supplies.He was speaking…
Water companies should no longer be allowed to monitor their own levels of sewage pollution, the industry body has told…
Within a few years of the first Earth Day in 1970, the US Environmental Protection Agency had been set up,…
Alison FrancisSenior science journalistKevin Church/BBCThe team has so far found 41 skeletons buried in the cemetery A medieval cemetery unearthed…
Getty ImagesAs the threat posed by US President Donald Trump tops Canada’s federal election agenda, the issue of the country’s…