Spanish slugs: Moscow alarm over giant invasive pests
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Native slugs are dwarfed by the orange invader Giant orange slugs up to 15cm...
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Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting record to tackle climate change
Image caption Some government offices have been shut down to allow civil servants to take part in the campaign Ethiopia...
India tiger census shows rapid population growth
Image copyright AFP Image caption India is now estimated to be home to 70% of the world's tigers India is...
No-deal Brexit ‘threatens’ UK science industry, says Wellcome Trust
Image caption Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller is chair of the Wellcome Trust The head of the UK's biggest charitable funder of...
Arctic wildfires: What’s caused huge swathes of flames to spread?
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe fires are very difficult for authorities to put outWildfires are ravaging...
Dinosaur bone: Scientists uncover giant femur in France
Image copyright AFP Scientists in south-western France have uncovered a giant dinosaur thigh bone at an excavation site that has...
Proms pay space-aged tribute to Nasa engineer Christopher Kraft
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionProms 2019: Nasa director honoured by Public Service BroadcastingChristopher C Kraft, the...
Tim Flannery: Climate change – very big and fast moving
Tim Flannery, chief councillor of Climate Council Australia, has warned about the pace of climate change.He told Hardtalk's Shaun Ley:...
Hawaii TMT: Desecrating sacred land or finding new frontiers?
Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption Comet Hale-Bopp seen above the current Mauna Kea telescopes Rifts over a dormant...
Climate change: Current warming ‘unparalleled’ in 2,000 years
Image copyright Getty Images The speed and extent of current global warming exceeds any similar event in the past 2,000...
Greta Thunberg speech: French MPs boycott teen ‘apocalypse guru’
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionGreta Thunberg told French lawmakers to "listen to the science" of climate...
Nasa Moon lander vision takes shape
Image copyright NASA Image caption Artwork: Nasa is seeking proposals for a lander to take humans to the Moon's surface...
Chris Kraft: Key Apollo 11 director dies days after anniversary
Image copyright NASA Image caption Chris Kraft: A pioneer in a pioneering field The first flight director of US space...
‘Important’ Iron Age settlement found at Warboys dig
Image copyright Oxford Archaeology East Image caption Roman finds include this jug and human remains, including six skeletons Iron Age...
‘Restore UK bogs’ to tackle climate change
Image copyright Getty Images Restoring peat moors degraded by farming may prove a relatively inexpensive way of tackling climate change,...
Chandrayaan-2: India launches second Moon mission
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionScientists at the Sriharikota space station applauded the launchIndia has successfully launched...
Women in science: Smashing glass ceilings and glass walls
Image copyright Schmidt Futures/BBC/NovoNordisk/Getty A woman engineer who worked on the moon landing spoke this week of how she was...
Iceland pilot whales: Dozens of dead mammals found beached
Image copyright David Schwarzhans Image caption David Schwarzhans, the pilot of the sightseeing helicopter, took images of the whales Dozens...
