Science & Environment

Top Stories

Features & Analysis

Our Experts

Has history been made at COP21?

Environment correspondent Matt McGrath on the significance of the climate deal.

12 December 2015
Matt McGrath Environment correspondent

COP21: Namibia on frontline of drought battle

Namibia is in the grip of a drought, intensified by the global knock-on from the El Nino weather phenomenon in the Pacific. Lessons learned now could help the country cope with the drier conditions that may come with future climate changes.

9 December 2015
David Shukman Science editor

Enceladus: Does this moon hold a second genesis of life?

The Cassini probe is about to bid farewell to Enceladus, the small moon of Saturn that many scientists now regard as the most likely place to find life beyond Earth. We have to go back to study this bright white world in more detail.

11 December 2015
Jonathan Amos Science correspondent

Elsewhere on the BBC