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Nature & Environment
Killers or carers?
Who do we think we are when it comes to other animals?- asks Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart.
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Nature & Environment
London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi
The UK has cleaner air than in 1952 when the great smog of London descended on the capital – but not yet clean enough for thousands.
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Nature & Environment
Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
The electric bus and other vehicles could have been running in the UK over a century ago, if fraudsters had not stifled clean transport at birth.
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Society, Politics & Law
Green Brexit?
Recent months have seen green added to the red, white and blue Brexit boasted by Theresa May. Green Party peer and Leave voter, Jenny Jones, explores the thinking.
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Nature & Environment
Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
The Council of Europe's crucial activities come with a deep responsibility to ensure public access to its historic decision-making. Unfortunately, this has been sadly lacking for a number of years.
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Nature & Environment
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
New studies confirm climate change’s triple risk to Europe. The heat is on, lives are at risk and the floods are arriving earlier.
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Nature & Environment
Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
At the UN climate summit, a group of countries has undertaken to end the use and the financing of coal.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Perceptions of corruption
Economic injustice takes many forms. Watch this video to find out just how widespread it is and how we can combat it
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Nature & Environment
The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict
The media has moved on since the burning oil wells were extinguished, but for Iraqis, the pollution impacts add to the day-to-day misery.
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Nature & Environment
How is the IPCC helping scientists talk about climate change?
Climate change is about massive narrative and minute details. How can scientists help the wider public understand the changing planet?
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Nature & Environment
Do animals really raise human babies as their own?
Myth, history and popular culture tells of children raised by wolves and more. Do these stories have any basis in truth?
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Nature & Environment
Water for life
Atoms, elements and molecules are the building blocks of everything that makes up our world, including ourselves. In this free course, Water for life, you will learn the basic chemistry of how these components work together, starting with a chemical compound we are all very familiar with water.