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Naomi Oreskes asks "why trust science" in an age of denialism

6 November 2019

In Why Trust Science?, Naomi Oreskes's asks bold questions but knows there are no clear answers – and critiques herself as the book unfolds

11 years remain to fight climate change – what progress have we made?

6 November 2019

In 2018, we were told we had 12 years to save the planet. One year on, Graham Lawton finds reasons to be hopeful, despite ever-rising carbon emissions

Could your home be net zero carbon? The radical plan to make it happen

5 November 2019

The UK government is planning radical changes to the way the country builds homes in order to slash their carbon emissions, but will people accept them?

Australian government to be sued over firefighting foam contamination

4 November 2019

Up to 40,000 residents of towns contaminated with chemicals from firefighting foams are set to sue the Australian government, amid cancer risk fears

UK government rings death knell for the fracking industry

4 November 2019

The sharp reversal of support ends nearly a decade of protests, court cases and minor earthquakes without any energy being produced

Discovering rainforest secrets atop the Eiffel Tower of the Amazon

2 November 2019

Fred Pearce climbed the 325 metre Amazon Tall Tower Observatory to learn how researchers are studying the rainforest from above

Exclusive: Spray-on gene editing could make genetic modification easy

1 November 2019

Genetically modifying plants could soon be almost as easy as spraying them with water. A new technique involving nanoparticles could have a wide variety of uses