Ben Spencer

It took just 24 years for humanity to drive the dodo to extinction. Evolutionary scientists hope it will not take them that long to bring it back.

After a Panorama investigation, Dr Louise Newson has admitted prescribing over the limit — because she says the limit is wrong

Before he was environment secretary Reed shaped Project Starmer and ousted hard-left ‘crazies’ at his local council. Can he protect nature while Britain gets building?

As household recycling rates fall to a ten-year low, 80% of people are throwing away pots, cans and bottles that could be reprocessed

Feeding the nation while cutting carbon emissions is a challenge, but growers in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia are engineering a solution in the peaty soil

Eli Lilly is rolling out Mounjaro to a small number of NHS patients but fears its Alzheimer’s treatment won’t even get that far

Drilling deeper than anyone has drilled before, researchers hope they will find useful secrets — and vindication for their personal sacrifice

(Image credit: NWS) NWS has published its annual review for 2023 to 2024, which highlights the safe operation of the low level waste repository in Cumbria.

Rachel Reeves committed £2 billion to 11 projects last week. Our science editor looks beyond the hype

When Julia Waterhouse developed early-onset dementia, she chose to end her own life. Today her sister shares the recordings, notes and artwork that reveal her thought process