29 July 2022
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says it is important that a clean air law is enacted and hits out at "vested interests" pushing back against his plans to expand a clean air zone to outer London in 2023
28 July 2022
Analysis of how much global warming influenced the UK's heatwave last week is likely to be an underestimate because climate models aren't doing a good job of reproducing how fast temperatures have risen in western Europe
19 July 2022
Coningsby in Lincolnshire has provisionally recorded a temperature of 40.3°C, an event that would be extremely unlikely without climate change, and scientists warn that heatwaves will only get worse
18 July 2022
Under new legislation, it will be an offence to deliberately capture, kill, disturb or injure beavers in England or damage where the animals breed and rest
18 July 2022
Four European bison have been released into ancient woodland in Kent, where they should transform the ecosystem
15 July 2022
Temperatures are expected to break UK records on Monday, leading to a spike in hospital admissions and deaths along with “widespread impacts on people and infrastructure”
7 July 2022
The race to replace Boris Johnson as UK prime minister has begun, with Suella Braverman and Steve Baker announcing their intention to run. They may be joined by Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and others, but where do the hopefuls stand on science?
24 June 2022
The UK is making plans to launch its own science funding programme in September, science minister George Freeman tells New Scientist, if the EU refuses access to the Horizon scheme
14 June 2022
The UK may invest in its own space plans if Brexit-related issues continue to prevent full involvement in the European Union’s programmes
1 June 2022
A visa scheme intended to encourage Nobel prize laureates and other scientific award winners to work in the UK has attracted just one successful applicant since its launch a year ago
