A new poll has highlighted the lack of effective communication between the scientific community and the public. Just one in nine people are aware of the...
In the future biobatteries could be used to generate energy from sweat. Researchers have reported that they have designed a sensor in the form of a...
A study has found that more than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the Earth’s glaciers can be attributed to human activity. In a new...
Climate change could be affecting circulation patterns in the atmosphere leading to more extreme weather events during summer, including heatwaves, according to new research from a...
The rapid decline of wildlife as food source in poor countries means that more children are needed for cheap labour to find food, causing social tensions...
An international team of scientists have attached sensors to Arctic sea ice to measure this year’s summer melt in a massive, unprecedented experiment. The study will...
Climate change scientists face a unique challenge regarding their research and how they live their own lives, especially as their projects face ever increasing pollicisation and...
We need to reexamine and move past the concept of sustainability, argues Melinda Harm Benson, associate professor at the University of New Mexico, and Robin Craig, William...
A climate change expert has offered $30,000 (£17,500) of his own money to anyone who can disprove that mankind is causing global warming, in an effort...
One hundred and fifty-four years ago today, seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, a group of British scientists and...
The retailer Lush is calling on individuals and organisations to come up with alternatives to animal testing and submit their ideas to its annual prize. Nominations...
The result of the public vote for the Longitude Prize 2014 has been announced, with the British public selecting the rise of resistance to antibiotics as...
David Waltham, reader in mathematical geology at Royal Holloway, lays out three compelling reasons why climate change is real – and it is manmade. This article...
Climate scientists need to rethink the way they communicate the evidence and risks of climate change, according to a new report that finds experts are often...
Investment in cancer research can deliver economic returns as well as crucial health benefits, a new study has revealed. In a paper published in the journal BMC...