Category: Science, Climate & Technology

By Rob Powell, political correspondent On foreign and domestic issues, it’s a busy time for the Business Secretary – as evidenced by the raft of questions directed at him during a brief…

The clocks go forward this Sunday, marking the beginning of the daylight saving period.  It will mean the time jumps to 1am on the turn of midnight on 30 March – and…

UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.5% last year compared with 2023, according to provisional government figures. The Energy Department (DESNZ) said climate-warming emissions generated in the UK were 371.4 million tonnes…

The amount of sewage being dumped into English rivers remains “disgraceful”, despite improved monitoring, supposed investment by water companies and threats of penalties from government, the latest data reveals. Overall, there was…

Labour MPs have expressed concern about potential plans to cut or scrap a tax paid by tech giants to stave off the threat of Donald Trump’s tariffs. The chancellor and business secretary…

HIV deaths and infections will rise as a result of cuts to foreign aid, a study has warned. Funding cuts could undo decades of progress and cause infections and deaths to surge…

Warning: This article contains graphic material and references to suicide ‘My daughter is covered in scars’ For more than a year, Jo* didn’t know her daughter, Mary*, was a victim of the…

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to become a pandemic”, according to an expert at the UK Health Security Agency. Richard Pebody, director of epidemic and emerging infections at…

Surgeons have carried out the world’s first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically…

The security of messaging app Signal was compromised by human error when top US officials accidentally added a journalist to their group chat. But what is Signal – and did Donald Trump’s…