Roger Highfield, Science Director, discusses a new study which says the world’s “safe” climate limit may be closer to 1°C—not 1.5°C—as ice loss accelerates and irreversible sea level rise looms.

A major ocean current that regulates global temperatures – and gives the UK mild winters – is weakening due to climate change. Science Director Roger Highfield describes a new study which suggests it may avoid collapse this century, thanks to powerful winds that whip around Antarctica.

As climate scientists worry that the Earth may tip beyond a point of irreversible climate change, new research suggests that even the simplest computer model is vulnerable to such tipping points. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports.
A tumultuous end to the annual climate negotiations saw the formalisation of a global carbon market and a climate finance deal that leaves many nations dissatisfied. Science Director, Roger Highfield, reports

A five-year roadmap to help the aviation sector achieve net-zero climate impact by 2050 is published today by a Cambridge University team. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports.

Lab grown chicken could be produced as cheaply as organic chicken, according to a study published today. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports.

Heat deaths are rising as summers get hotter, but would have been almost doubled if we had done nothing to adapt, reports Science Director, Roger Highfield.

The 2024 Landscape Artist of the Year prize was a commission by the Science Museum Group to capture the story of Orkney’s central role in the UK’s transition to low-carbon, renewable energy.

A systematic review and analysis have shown plant-based diets are healthy, complementing research that shows they benefit the planet too. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports on today’s study.

Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports on how the need for urgent action to curb climate change has intensified as the UK’s presidency of COP26 draws to a close.

Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to the inventor of a new way to scrub the atmosphere of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.

Former curator Liz Bruton explores how bicycles in the Science Museum Group Collection were ordinary, radical and sustainable.