Looking on the bright side of a large seaweed patch

28 August 2019

I was a climate change denier but I got better

28 August 2019

Are 'septic foci' returning to haunt and hurt us?

28 August 2019

Editor's pick: Using biomass to make fuel is a criminal waste (2)

28 August 2019

Editor's pick: Using biomass to make fuel is a criminal waste (1)

28 August 2019

Communities in East Anglia are deciding whether to abandon their towns

28 August 2019

Rising sea levels mean that coastal communities in the UK are having to decide whether to defend their towns, and when they will need to abandon them altogether

UK police are using AI to spot spikes in Brexit-related hate crimes

28 August 2019

The UK police are monitoring hundreds of thousands of Twitter posts every day to try to predict spikes in hate crime in the run up to the UK's exit from the European Union

The pyrocene has begun: How to tackle a world of raging wildfires

28 August 2019

Thousands of hectares of Arctic forest is on fire and the effects on human health and the climate could be terrible. Why did this happen and how can we respond?

The back pain epidemic: Why popular treatments are making it worse

28 August 2019

Chronic back pain is on the rise – in part because the way we treat it often does more harm than good. It's time to think differently about our aches

A smartphone app can detect tiny amounts of norovirus in water

27 August 2019

A device consisting of a smartphone and an attachable microscope can detect minuscule amounts of norovirus, which may help identify its spread earlier