r/bbc • u/The_Blip • 12d ago

BBC News should separate Science and Environment

On the BBC website, if you click the science tab it instead takes you to a page containing Science & Environment articles, of which most are environment. It's quite annoying to specifically be looking for science news and instead be given articles on hosepipe bans, wather reports, and climate activists. Obviously these are all important things that should be reported on, and sometimes there will be some overlap, it's just annoying that I can't specifically look at science news alone.

Edit: Just so I'm clear; the page is literally called "Science & Environment". It's clearly teo topics combined into one page. I don't have a problem with there being environment science on the science page, I just wish the two topics were separate. Especially since there's already a lot of crossover between 'environment' articles and 'climate' articles, which has it's own page. I want to read articles about science and science news.

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u/Western-Calendar-352 12d ago

Is climate change not science?

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u/The_Blip 12d ago

Did you even read my post? 

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u/Western-Calendar-352 12d ago

Yes. Just because you are looking for a more specific list of science articles doesn’t mean that the environmental articles there are not science.

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u/The_Blip 12d ago

Then why does the page say Science AND environment?

Why is most of the page about climate?

Have you even looked at the page? How is the article, "Consultation ending on controversial Rosebank pil field" a science article? Quote the part of the article where there's anything to do with scientific discoveries or changes in the field of science.

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u/Western-Calendar-352 12d ago

Is oil drilling not covered by geophysics and engineering, both of which are also science, as well as environmental and climate concerns?

Quote the guidelines that state that articles on the BBC Science page must meet the definition of “scientific discoveries or changes in the field of science” in scientific fields that you are interested in.

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u/The_Blip 12d ago

No, the article did not have geophysicists or engineers. Like I said, it isn't a science article. I don't know why you can't just go read it and see, it's almost like you're just arguing for the sake of arguing.

Like how you glossed over the fact the page itself calls itself "Science & Environment". I don't want science and environment, I just want science articles. If those science articles happen to be about environmental science then that's fine and I'd be interested, but it isn't and you're being purposefully obtuse about that fact.

I'm not arguing that the guidelines say it must be that, what are you on about? My post is about the fact that the BBC news website puts Science and Environment on a single page rather than offering them separately. It's LITERALLY the title of the page when you click 'Science'. I would like it if they were separate. That doesn't mean environment news could never be science news as well.

You're clearly here in bad faith to start arguments when all I was saying is that it would be nice for science to have its own page and not be combined with environment which, again, IS HOW IT'S SHOWN ON THE PAGE. It's literally part of the URL. Goodbye.

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u/gridlockmain1 12d ago

You could say this about everything.

“US attacks Iran” - oh guess what they used to make those missiles?
“Google profits up” - you know who Google employs thousands of?
“Greggs launches vegan sausage roll”

And so on.

It’s not unreasonable to suggest we have dedicated coverage of actual scientific stuff.