Twice a week, the Guardian brings you the latest science and environment news
US president Joe Biden campaigned on climate issues, but recent events may have sounded a death knel
The H5N1 strain of avian influenza is sweeping across the world, killing millions of birds. In the U
This week, Nasa unveiled the first images from the James Webb space telescope – much awaited picture
The varroa mite, a deadly honeybee parasite, has finally found its way into Australia. Varroa destru
The US supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade will have a significant impact on the reprodu
The UK is yet again facing a wave of Covid infections, with cases soaring by more than half a millio
Last week, public health officials declared a ‘national incident’ after they found vaccine-derived p
When the Guardian’s UK technology editor Alex Hern was contacted on Twitter to ask if he was involve
After wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone national park in 1995, researchers noticed some big ec
They support an incredible array of biodiversity and may also be some of the world’s most effective
Last week an engineer at Google claimed that an AI chatbot he worked with, known as LaMDA, had becom
According to some estimates smoking causes one in 10 deaths worldwide. A lesser known side-effect of
When reports surfaced that Boris Johnson would be announcing the return of imperial measurements to
Are synthetic chemicals we encounter every day causing us to gain weight? According to a major scien
Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority in the world – but according to psychologist Dr Julia Sha
A recent report on the exclusion of pregnant and breastfeeding women in clinical trials found that b
The sudden surge of monkeypox cases outside Africa has alarmed public health authorities around the
Millions around the world are struggling with higher food and energy prices. In the UK inflation has
From deep inside Gran Chaco, a dry tropical forest in Argentina one and a half times the size of Cal
Last November in Glasgow, countries agreed to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-in
