Jeff Bezos to blast into space aboard New Shepard rocket ship
The capsule, containing the Bezos brothers, Funk and student Oliver Daemen, separates from its booster around 76km (250,000ft) up. The...
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Hubble space telescope’s function is restored
"I'm proud of the Hubble team, from current members to Hubble alumni who stepped in to lend their support and...
Using plastic waste to help solve sand shortages
"From a cost perspective, using the plastic can be cheaper, broadly speaking, especially as sand goes up in price as...
Formula 1 boss Ross Brawn says hydrogen could be future fuel
Hydrogen could play a role in the future - F1's BrawnHydrogen-powered cars could be the future of Formula 1, according...
Climate change: Amazon regions emit more carbon than they absorb
"In the eastern part of the Amazon, which is around 30% deforested, this region emitted 10 times more carbon then...
Climate crisis rallies young people
Thousands of young people across the UK are joining a mission to understand and help solve the environmental crisis facing...
Virgin Galactic’s Beth Moses: ‘No camera can capture the magic’
When Sir Richard Branson flies to the edge of space on Sunday in his rocket plane, VSS Unity, he’ll be...
Why North America’s killer heat scares me
The worlds of technology and business are showing some positive signs. The cost of solar and wind power, for instance,...
Critically endangered antelope saiga makes comeback
"But this new data is cause for celebration," he added. "There are few truly vast wildernesses, like the steppes of...
Then and now: Arctic sea-ice feeling the heat
In our monthly feature, Then and Now, we reveal some of the ways that planet Earth has been changing against...
Fukushima disaster: Tracking the wild boar ‘takeover’
So, he said, while the evacuated area was the origin of this hybridisation, or cross-breeding, the hybrid pigs then go...
UK government’s ‘toothless policies’ failing to protect nature
Responding to the report, Environment Secretary George Eustice said: "Our Environment Bill will deliver the most ambitious environmental programme of...
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Shortlist revealed
The Royal Observatory Greenwich's 13th Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition has announced its shortlist of extraordinary celestial scenes.image copyrightPeter...
Climate change: Courts set for rise in compensation cases
Sophie Marjanac, from the environmental law group ClientEarth, told BBC News: "As this science improves, the boards of individual fossil...
Appeal to identify ‘La Botaniste’ who slipped from history
"I think she clearly is a keen botanist because pressed in a number of the pages are wild flowers," says...
Ministers ‘should urge public to eat less meat’
"In recent months, we've made clear with record investment in wind power, a new UK Emissions Trading Scheme, £5.2bn investment...
Clues to how birds migrate using Earth’s magnetic field
"We think we may have identified the molecule that allows small migratory songbirds to detect the direction of the Earth's...
Signs of geological activity found on Venus
Dr Byrne, Dr Richard Ghail, from Royal Holloway, University of London, Prof Sean Solomon, from Columbia University, in New York,...
