From: BBC News on Wed, Dec 08 2010 7:21 PM

Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, is urging delegates from 200 countries to make meaningful progress at the climate conference in the Mexican city of Cancun.While China is still the biggest creator of greenhouse gases, President Obama’s ability to change things has been m...

From: BBC News on Sun, Dec 05 2010 4:44 AM

An ambitious project involving science and round-the-clock care is offering hope to boost panda numbers in China.

From: BBC News on Fri, Dec 03 2010 3:02 AM

With international climate talks undeway in Cancun, the Science museum is opening a new gallery on climate science.

From: BBC News on Wed, Dec 01 2010 10:18 AM

Bruce Thorson discovers why the curious star-nosed mole is teaching researchers a lot about how and why we experience pain.

From: BBC News on Fri, Nov 26 2010 3:53 PM

More than 200 students and activists have created an image of a scarab in the Egyptian desert, to send a message to world leaders ahead of next week’s UN climate summit.

From: BBC News on Fri, Nov 26 2010 4:49 AM

Three astronauts aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz have touched down safely in northern Kazakhstan after spending five months aboard the International Space Station.

From: BBC News on Thu, Nov 25 2010 7:48 PM

Texas, the state most closely associated with oil, has five of the world’s biggest wind farms - but the incentive appears to be making money, not saving the planet.

From: BBC News on Wed, Nov 17 2010 5:54 AM

The Thames has been voted the public’s least favourite river in England and Wales, despite major efforts to clean it up in recent years.

From: BBC News on Mon, Nov 15 2010 1:39 PM

Russian cosmonauts have carried out a six-hour spacewalk at the International Space Station.

From: BBC News on Mon, Nov 15 2010 8:39 AM

Scientists have discovered that pterosaurs pole-vaulted themselves into the air, proving people who thought they couldn’t fly wrong.

From: BBC News on Thu, Nov 11 2010 2:09 AM

University researchers claim crops could help cool Earth, in just one inventive suggestion being made to prevent climate change.

From: BBC News on Wed, Nov 10 2010 12:05 PM

Charlie Duke, Lunar Module Pilot of the Apollo 16 mission, talks about his astronaut training, his memories of the Moon and his thoughts about the future of US space flight.

From: BBC News on Mon, Nov 08 2010 9:38 PM

The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a 'mini-Big Bang' by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.

From: BBC News on Fri, Oct 29 2010 8:06 AM

The BBC’s Rebecca Morelle gets a close encounter with the world's most endangered cat.

From: BBC News on Fri, Oct 29 2010 8:06 AM

Vet Nic Masters explains why he is taking sun bear DNA to be frozen and stored.

From: BBC News on Fri, Oct 29 2010 8:06 AM

An Ariane-5 rocket has been successfully launched from the Guiana Space Center, delivering communications satellites which will relay services to European and Japanese operators.

From: BBC News on Thu, Oct 28 2010 12:39 PM

The first gorilla to be born at London Zoo for 20 years has appeared before the cameras for the first time, following his birth on Tuesday.

From: BBC News on Thu, Oct 28 2010 8:55 AM

The World Bank has launched a global partnership aimed at helping countries include the costs of destroying nature into their national accounts.

From: BBC News on Wed, Oct 27 2010 6:24 AM

With the help of a microlight, researchers teach the critically endangered northern bald ibis a migration route across Europe.

From: BBC News on Fri, Oct 15 2010 1:54 AM

Scientists working for the United Nations are poised to announce that they have eradicated rinderpest.