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Are rising lower respiratory infection hospital admissions linked to dirty air?

As LRIs put pressure on health services, a Spanish-led study examines what role exposure to air pollution may playThe Covid crisis highlighted gaps in our understanding of the role that

Country diary: On it flows, this lick of flame through the forest | Merryn Glover

Badenoch, Cairngorms: As we pause above the river, a sudden flash catches our eyes – a red squirrel is rippling along the branches belowIt’s early morning and the sky is

Greece’s Aegean islands reel from ‘lake of mud’ flash floods before Easter rush

Authorities race to complete clean-up operation after devastation from gales and heaviest rainfall in 20 yearsPeople on the Aegean islands, more used in April to the sight and scent of

It came from outer space: the meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul-de-sac – podcast

Meteorite falls are extremely rare and offer a glimpse of the processes that formed our world billions of years ago. When a space rock came to an English market town

Musical vans, school oaths and civic pride: how an Indian city beat the litter

Indore in Madhya Pradesh was once dotted with fetid waste dumps but after a huge campaign is now virtually spotlessThis is what happens usually in India: a politician wakes up

More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space

Campaign network calls on government to prioritise smaller cars and introduce higher charges for SUV ownersMore than 1m cars too big to fit in parking spaces are being sold in

Winter Sea Ice Reached New Lows in the Arctic

The region’s ice extent on March 22, 2025, was the lowest maximum observed in the satellite record. Read More... ​Read More

‘I could live 30 years – but want to die’: Has assisted dying in Canada gone too far?

BBC News reports on assisted dying in Canada, where some say it's now easier to choose to die than get support to live ​ 

California man invites BBC to witness his death as MPs debate assisted dying

Wayne Hawkins believes terminally ill people should be able to die when they choose, but others in the state disagree. ​ 

Quick and efficient bicopter drone could dethrone its quadcopter cousins

Consumer drones are all just slight variations on the quadcopter design … right? Well no, not any longer. The Falcon Mini is a two-propeller "bicopter" which is claimed to be

New battery tech makes sub-zero EV charging 5x faster

One of the things you might not learn about electric vehicles (EV) until you live with one is that they charge slower in cold temperatures, which means you might have

Bluesky Report – #110

Video app Skylight is available for public release, with funding from Mark Cuban and 55k users in the first 24 hours. Spark is building their own entire video platform on