Science in Action
New developments in science and science news from around the world, weekly from BBC World Service.
2 Episodes
Faster, Wetter, Worse Tropical Storms
It’s hard not to have noticed the intensity of storms around the world this year, not least the Atlantic storms that battered the eastern US. A new study, using a new technique, confirms their attribution to climate change, and goes further, finding that many of them were actually raised in…
Drastic plastic reductions
Before December, the United Nations aims to have a global treaty in place covering efforts to limit global plastic production and pollution. In a paper in the journal Science, a team of scientists have used machine learning to estimate what happens by 2050 if we do nothing. But they have…