Extinction: A million species at risk, so what is saved?
Image copyright WWT A decade-long project to save one of the world's most endangered birds has finally found success, with...
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The man who spent 30 years caring for crocodiles in Ethiopia
Tomas Tama has spent 30 years working at Arbaminch ranch in southern Ethiopia to protect crocodiles against illegal hunters.Even after...
Satellite constellations: Astronomers warn of threat to view of Universe
Image copyright Marco Langbroek/SatTrackCam Leiden Image caption Astronomers are concerned that the bright satellites could hinder their research Astronomers are...
Is ‘super coral’ the key to saving the world’s reefs?
Scientists in the Seychelles have started the world's first large scale coral reef restoration project to help stop the impact...
The big science and environment stories of 2019
This year, millions of people around the world mobilised in protest to highlight the dire emergency facing our planet. Could...
Communities in Calderdale ‘traumatised’ by 2015 floods
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Some of the most striking images of the 2015 floods were in Mytholmroyd Flooding...
Why I spend my weekends ringing birds
Image caption Special pliers are used to ring the birds - this is a redwing which has migrated to the...
New engine tech that could get us to Mars faster
Image copyright Lockheed Martin Image caption Mars Base Camp: one concept of an orbiting outpost at the Red Planet by...
Measuring the cost of an invasive tree killer
Image copyright SPL Image caption The tiny emerald ash borer arrived in the US in 2002 and has since killed...
Inventing sign language for space
British sign language is receiving an astronomical update thanks to a unique collaboration between a space scientist and a group...
Lewis stone circle has star-shaped lightning strike
Image copyright University of St Andrews Image caption Evidence of the strike at the centre of the stone circle was...
‘The closest thing on Earth to interplanetary travel’
Image copyright David Vaughan Finding out how fast Antarctic ice is melting is critical to understanding the scale of the...
The teenage activists taking after Greta Thunberg
From climate change protester Greta Thunberg to Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, young people have been making headlines this...
Netherlands climate change: Court orders bigger cuts in emissions
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Dutch government has struggled to cut carbon emissions since 1990 The highest court...
Boeing launches Starliner capsule to ISS for Nasa
Boeing has launched an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station. It was aboard an Atlas rocket which took off...
Miss America 2020: Biochemist wins crown after on-stage experiment
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch the explosive performance that won Camille Schrier the Miss America crownA...
World’s oldest fossil trees uncovered in New York
Image copyright Charles Ver Straeten Image caption An Archaeopteris root system at the Cairo fossil forest site The earliest fossilised...
Robert Downey Jr launches YouTube doc featuring AI baby
Image copyright YouTube Image caption Robert Downey Jr's introduction was filmed in the hangar where the original Iron Man movies...
