Palm House set for major renovation
It's a makeover on a massive scale - it involves moving 1,300 plants, replacing 16,000 panes of glass and cleaning up hundreds of tonnes of iron. This is the ambitious…
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July 16, 2025
Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists
Listen to the sounds three different plants might make if they were stressed. Animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an…
July 15, 2025
Mystery interstellar object could be the oldest known comet
A mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, according to scientists. Named 3I/Atlas, it may be three billion years older than our…
July 11, 2025
Did US government cuts contribute to the Texas tragedy?
In the aftermath of the fatal Texas floods, some Democrats have warned about the "consequences" of the Trump administration's cuts to the federal government workforce, including meteorologists. The suggestion is…
July 8, 2025
Jeff Bezos-backed $88m methane satellite missing in space
An $88m satellite designed to detect releases of the planet-warming gas methane from oil and gas production, has been lost in space in a major setback for climate efforts. The…
July 3, 2025
Recent droughts are ‘slow-moving global catastrophe’
From Somalia to mainland Europe, the past two years have seen some of the most ravaging droughts in recorded history, made worse by climate change, according to a UN-backed report.…
July 2, 2025
Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by a DNA bone test
A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. An analysis…
July 2, 2025
How unusual is this UK heat and is climate change to blame?
A second spell of temperatures well over 30C before we've even got to the end of June - how unusual is this and how much is climate change to blame?…
June 30, 2025
One in three citizens apply for climate change visa
More than a third of Tuvalu citizens have entered the ballot for a world-first climate visa which would allow them to permanently migrate to Australia. Opening for the first intake…
June 27, 2025
Synthetic Human Genome Project gets go ahead
Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first. The research has been…
June 26, 2025
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