By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent COP26 There are more delegates at COP26 associated with the fossil fuel industry than from any single country, analysis shared with the BBC shows. Campaigners led by Global Witness assessed the participant list published by the UN at the start of this meeting. They found that 503 people with links to […]
By Emma Harrison BBC News COP26 Ministers and negotiators at COP26 should “pull together and drive for the line” to secure ambitious action on climate change, Boris Johnson has said. The prime minister said countries must be ready to “make the bold compromises and ambitious commitments needed” at the final week of the climate summit. […]
By Georgina Rannard BBC News COP26 More than 100 world leaders will promise to end and reverse deforestation by 2030, in the COP26 climate summit’s first major deal. Brazil – where stretches of the Amazon rainforest have been cut down – will be among the signatories on Tuesday. The pledge includes almost £14bn ($19.2bn) […]
By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Nobel Prize Scientists who discovered how our bodies feel the warmth of the sun or the hug of a loved one have won the Nobel Prize. David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, from the US, share the 2021 prize in Medicine or Physiology for their work on sensing […]
By David Shukman Science editor COP26 Despite all the promises to take action, the world is still on course to heat up to dangerous levels. That’s the latest blunt assessment of the United Nations. Its experts have studied the climate plans of more than 100 countries and concluded that we’re heading in the wrong […]
By Claire Marshall BBC Environment & Rural Affairs Correspondent Amazon fires A record number of activists working to protect the environment and land rights were murdered last year, according to a report by a campaign group. 227 people were killed in 2020, the highest number recorded for a second consecutive year, the report from Global […]
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent Astronomers have captured some of the most detailed images ever seen of galaxies in deep space. They are in much higher definition than normal and reveal the inner workings of galaxies in unprecedented detail. Many of the images could yield insights into the role of black holes in star and […]
COP26 The world’s largest ever report into climate change will be published later, setting out the stark reality of the state of the planet. The study is by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a UN group that looked at more than 14,000 scientific papers. It will be the most up-to-date assessment of how global […]
Barrier-breaking female aviator Wally Funk has become the oldest-ever person to fly in space. The 82-year-old blasted into space alongside the billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, and an 18-year-old student. “I didn’t think I’d ever get to go up,” said Ms Funk, who has spent the past six decades trying to reach space. […]
By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website Billionaire Jeff Bezos has made a short journey to space, in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship, New Shepard. He was accompanied by Mark Bezos, his brother, Wally Funk, an 82-year-old pioneer of the space race, and an 18-year-old student. They travelled in a capsule […]
