Ugandan ivory trader sentenced to life in prison
In passing sentence, the chief magistrate of the country's special wildlife court, Gladys Kamasanyu, said "offences of unlawful possession of...
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Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: Nasa shows how a war zone faded from space
Dr Kokeb Hagos, who collates the Tigray Health Bureau data, told the BBC that 2,450 children had died in hospitals...
James Webb telescope spies ‘Pillars of Creation’
"I've been studying the Eagle Nebula since the mid-1990s, trying to see 'inside' the light-years long pillars that Hubble showed,...
Only 3% of England under nature protection – report
It said the government had designated about 2,800 hectares (6,918 acres) to nature in three new Sites of Special Scientific...
Ivory seized decades ago still turning up in raids
The trade in ivory has been banned since 1987 in Burundi, one of the world's poorest countries. In 2004 scientists...
Iraqi minister admits gas flaring cancer link
The BBC Arabic team were similarly denied entry permits to film at Rumaila during their investigation. Ali Hussein Julood, a...
Anti-Bird flu measures in place across Great Britain
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) advised that the risk to public health from the virus was very low and...
Climate change: Can an enormous seaweed farm help curb it?
She says there are less technologically challenging ways of giving nature a nudge, such as growing more trees and hedgerows...
Lab-grown brain cells play video game Pong
"We have to see this new technology very much like the nascent computer industry, when the first transistors were janky...
Direct action not ruled out by conservation groups over environment policies
While climate action groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil embrace tactics like gluing themselves to roads, members of...
Use Covid lessons to curb climate change, Lords tell government
"People will have different lifestyles and make different choices about what changes they need to make, but we're quite clear...
Robots Are Helping Immunocompromised Kids ‘Go to School’
That was the key; those interactions that I craved in the hospital were the same that many missed during the...
Apple boom: Why community orchards are on the rise
Take, for instance, the Beauty of Bath, Worcester Pearmain and Stoke Red, from the village of Rodney Stoke, near Cheddar....
Young activists urge focus on cash for climate damage at COP27
"We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people currently living in shanty towns, sleeping in tents under the sky....
Climate change: World aviation agrees ‘aspirational’ net zero plan
"This week, members of the International Civil Aviation Organisation agreed to a collective goal of net zero international aviation by...
UK wardrobes stuffed with unworn clothes, study shows
"We are keeping our clothes for longer, but we've got more of them in our wardrobes, which means we're actually...
New oil and gas at odds with green goals – report
Business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has spoken of his desire to extract "every last drop" of North Sea oil. The GEM...
Scottish fossil revealed to be pterodactyl ancestor
"By identifying Scleromochlus as a close pterosaur cousin, we can now reveal that pterosaurs evolved from tiny, fast-running, ground-living animals,...
