Hawaii wildfires: hundreds more feared dead – BBC News
Hundreds of people are still missing following wildfires that devastated the Hawaiian island of Maui. The Governor of Hawaii has said that many of them may have lost their lives. At least 96 people are known to have died. Rescue…
NASA mission to defend Earth from asteroids “a success”- BBC News
The American space agency NASA says its recent mission to deflect the path of an asteroid was successful. The Dart spacecraft smashed into a 160m-wide space rock known as Dimorphos, seven million miles from Earth. Scientists studying the asteroid’s orbit…
Record UK temperatures fuel climate change fears – BBC News
The UK has recorded record temperatures above 40C for the first time, heightening concern over the impact of global climate change. Thermometers hit 40.3C at Coningsby in Lincolnshire while dozens of other locations exceeded the UK’s previous highest recorded temperature…
Alaska’s melting glaciers force people from their homes as sea rises – BBC News
The impact of climate change is already very real for villagers on an island in northern Alaska. They’re being forced out of their homes because of rising sea levels. Alaska is home to rapidly retreating glaciers where the rate of…
Climate summit “is a failure” says Greta Thunberg – BBC News
The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accused world leaders of deliberately postponing much needed drastic action against global warming. She said they were fighting instead to preserve the status quo. Addressing thousands of young people at a rally in…
Brazil’s rainforest is still plundered as world leaders agree “end to deforestation” – BBC News
World leaders meeting at the climate summit in Glasgow have agreed a plan to reverse global deforestation by 2030. Scientists say that is essential if global warming is to be restricted to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Trees capture and…
The Queen tells climate summit “act now for our children” – BBC News
The Queen has urged world leaders at the COP26 climate summit in the UK to “achieve true statesmanship” and create a “safer, stabler future” for the planet. In a video message, she said many people hoped the “time for words…