Over half-term, W5 is launching Operation Earth, part of a two-year-long national programme that will engage, inspire and involve school-age children and their families with Natural Environment

Research Council’s world-leading environmental science research. The programme will highlight the relevance of contemporary environmental science issues to everyone’s daily lives and to society’s future and will explore the importance of environmental science in helping us understand our changing world.

The programme will highlight the relevance of contemporary environmental science to everyone’s daily lives and to society’s future, whilst exploring the importance of environmental science in helping us understand our changing world.