Ros Atkins on… The US climate conundrum

Campaigners say including extremist narratives among everyday conversations can be a pathway to radicalisation.

Countries are currently dealing with the coronavirus pandemic as a national rather than international issue, Dr David Nabarro, a special envoy on Covid-19 for the World Health Organization told BBC World News While a country looking after their own people’s interest is fine and it is what politicians are elected to do, you cannot deal…

Ford Mobility and Vivacity Labs are using sensors in cars and on lampposts to track dangerous traffic hotspots with the aim of making roads safer. Drivers taking part in the project have their speed, acceleration, rate and harshness of breaking and steering measured to see how they react along a route. The system also predicts…

Countries have got to start taking the dangers of climate change more seriously, the UK shadow business secretary Ed Miliband has said. Globally countries are struggling and dragging their feet in taking the action which is necessary, he told BBC World News’ Christian Fraser.

Joy and her family are among two million Nigerians living within 4km of a gas flare in Nigeria’s oil-rich south. Climate change has had a devastating impact on Nigeria. Fertile lands are turning into deserts in the north, while flash floods have become more common in the south. The country’s oil industry is making things…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said it will work with Japan “before, during and after” the country’s plan to release one million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. The director general Rafael Mariano Grossi told BBC World News that whatever option was taken it was about…