It is not the first time the Environment Agency’s enforcement regime has been called into question. In 2024, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), an independent public body, ruled that the EA was not applying legislation properly as to when sewage could be legally discharged. It said the EA was allowing water companies to spill…
If you’re considering sending a child to private school, you’ve likely seen some glossy photos and lofty mission statements. But marketing brochures and admissions websites rarely tell you the bad stuff — like a principal with a concerning history, lawsuits filed by families, or financial instability that could shutter a school in the middle of…
Researchers are hoping to build a clearer picture of how endangered basking sharks use and behave in Manx waters, as sightings of the species have risen this year. The Manx Shark Foundation has been created by shark scientist Gemma Scotts and fisheries officer Tom Morgan. Morgan said that while recent basking shark sightings have been…
Published on 05/07/2026 – 10:32 GMT+2 The Vikings were apparently not only a warlike people: In Søften, a small village in the Mid Jutland region north of Aarhus, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an exceptionally large craft settlement. The complex dates from the 7th to 10th centuries and covers 100,000 square metres. In total,…
Early this year, a medical journal article caught the attention of cancer patients and doctors worldwide because of its extraordinary conclusion. Simply changing the time of day that immunotherapy was administered appeared to produce a stunning benefit for lung cancer patients. Those who received IV infusions in the morning had their cancer kept at bay…
The research infrastructure that underpins America’s prowess in defense technology is “deteriorating,” according to a Department of Defense report released Wednesday. One reason is that research funds are being diverted to operations. The Pentagon’s “research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) infrastructure is deteriorating and weakening the Department’s ability to maintain a technically advanced warfighting capability,”…
On July 4, 2012, scientists packed a large hall at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, to hear the results of two experiments to find the Higgs boson, a particle so important in the realm of physics that it had been nicknamed “the God particle.” The detection of that elusive fundamental…
It’s a vigorous debate taking place right now among scientists around the world, with far-reaching implications for extreme weather and costly disasters: Is climate change making El Niño more intense? El Niño, the natural phenomenon that occurs every few years and pushes up global temperatures, has just begun and is expected to continue through 2027….
Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer, stood next to a pair of clear plastic boxes packed with tubes, nozzles and electronics, an odd-looking prototype that one day might serve to protect children in day care from airborne pathogens. A nozzle filled the right-hand box with a faint silvery mist. A pump pulled some of that air…
The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. The National Science Foundation had said in May that it would begin removing hundreds of underwater instruments this month that collect data on coastal…
