Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist Watch: BBC goes behind the scenes at Kew Gardens ahead of major Palm House renovation It’s a makeover on a massive scale – it involves moving 1,300 plants, replacing 16,000 panes of glass and cleaning up hundreds of tonnes of iron. This is the ambitious £50m plan to renovate the…

Mark Poynting, Jess Carr and Phil Leake BBC Climate and Verify data journalism teams Getty Images Many reservoirs in northern England, like Lindley Wood in Yorkshire, have hit extremely low levels Millions of people in England are in regions hit by drought, and further parts of England are at risk of following if dry weather…

A new material developed by researchers from University of Toronto Engineering could offer a safer alternative to the non-stick chemicals commonly used in cookware and other applications. The new substance repels both water and grease about as well as standard non-stick coatings — but it contains much lower amounts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS),…