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Non-native plants outnumber British flora, major report finds
Britain is now one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. That decline in biodiversity is also the subject of a new BBC documentary, Wild Isles, presented by Sir David Attenborough. One in every five plant species in the UK is listed as threatened....
NASA Space Mission Takes Stock of Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Countries
By Sally Younger, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory In Brief: A pilot project has estimated emissions and removals of carbon dioxide in individual nations using satellite measurements. A NASA Earth-observing satellite has helped researchers track carbon dioxide...
Nobel scientist says ‘UK research is in jeopardy’
Prof Sarah Main, Executive Director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (Case) said: "This review is a blueprint for how the UK can make the most of its science capabilities to improve lives and livelihoods, through integrating national assets, infrastructure,...
Sir David Attenborough: Three must-see moments in new series
Sir David Attenborough's new BBC series, Wild Isles, explores natural history in Britain and Ireland for the first time in his long career.After travelling the world to make nature documentaries, the 96-year-old says there has never been a more important time for the...
China’s new human gene-editing rules worry experts
The new rules close the loopholes that enabled Dr He to evade regulations, which previously only applied to experiments on human beings in hospitals, for example for drug trials. The updated regulations cover all research institutions and everything relating to...
Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks
He said: "If you imagine a big, high-definition, widescreen TV, and if only like three or four of the pixels on that giant screen are working, that's our knowledge of the deep ocean. So we've recorded about 230,000 species in the ocean, but it's estimated that there...
What is the UN High Seas Treaty and why is it needed?
Minna Epps, head of IUCN's ocean team, said: "A bit more than a quarter of emitted carbon dioxide is actually being absorbed by the ocean. That makes the ocean much more acidic, which means that it's going to be less productive and jeopardize certain species and...
NASA-Funded Scientists Estimate Carbon Stored in African Dryland Trees
By Sofie Bates, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Using commercial, high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence, an international team including NASA scientists mapped almost 10 billion individual trees in Africa’s drylands in order to assess...
Green flights not in easy reach, warn scientists
Regarding the Royal Society's assertion that sufficiently supplying the UK aviation industry with sustainable fuels would put pressure on food supplies, Airlines UK said the UK had sufficient feedstocks, that they would be drawn initially from household, commercial,...
Carbon capture: What is it and how does it fight climate change?
close panelRelated Topics Image source, Jonah Fisher/BBCBy Jonah FisherBBC Environment CorrespondentThe UK government is set to announce where a ground-breaking power station will be built. The carbon capture plant is designed to stop most of the carbon dioxide (CO2)...
Heat pumps: Lords slam ‘failing’ green heating scheme
But Rebecca Dibb-Simkin, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Octopus Energy, which was praised by the Committee for its investment in heat pump design and training, said the scheme had boosted confidence in the industry and Octopus Energy has 50,000 people on its...
Treasury takes back £1.6bn promised for science
The government negotiated associate membership of the programme in the withdrawal agreement following Brexit, because it felt it was important for the UK to be involved, But the EU went back on its part of the deal after disputes emerged over the Northern Ireland...