- + Saving a species: The slow return of the Iberian lynx—After edging close to extinction, there are now some 2,000 Iberian lynxes in Spain and Portugal.
- + 'Humans are all they know' - Fate of whales uncertain as marine zoo shuts—Campaigners, politicians and zoo managers disagree on where Wikie and her son Keijo should be sent.
- + Bereaved whale spotted pushing another dead calf—A headline-grabbing whale that pushed its calf's dead body for 17 days in 2018 appears to be grieving again.
- + To conserve or cull? Life in Australia's crocodile capital—The Northern Territory is home to over 100,000 saltwater crocodiles, but not everyone wants them there.
- + Sweden's green industry hopes hit by Northvolt woes—Financial problems at battery maker Northvolt have shaken hopes for Sweden's green industry sector.
- + UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed—About 200 footprints made by dinosaurs 166 million years ago have been unearthed in a quarry in Oxfordshire.
- + New bone test could rewrite British history, say scientists—Researchers say new DNA research could shed new light on what history books say about ancient Britain.
- + Could bike lanes reshape car-crazy Los Angeles?—LA is trying to expand its cycling network ahead of the 2028 Olympics, but some are skeptical.
- + Future of space travel: Could robots really replace human astronauts?—Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
- + Could AI robots replace human astronauts in space?—Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
- + Watch: Rocket blasts off for India's first space-docking mission—The rocket, which took off from a site north of Chennai, places two satellites in orbit.
- + Astronomers ready for dazzling but brief celestial show after 80-year wait—Astronomers are poised to see a star system about 3,000 light years away explode into brightness.
- + A year of extreme weather that challenged billions—Climate change caused 41 additional days of dangerous heat and extreme weather, say scientists.
- + Lost city found by accident and a fly's brain mapped: 2024's scientific wins—Moments to celebrate included a solar eclipse seen by millions and a lost city discovered by accident.
- + Lost city found by accident and rhino IVF breakthrough: 2024's scientific wins—Moments to celebrate included a solar eclipse seen by millions and a lost city discovered by accident.
- + Nasa makes history with closest-ever approach to Sun—Scientists hope the probe can help us better understand how the Sun works.
- + Charities to get £15m to save surplus farm food—Cash could be used for new technology or to provide training to more staff, the government says.
- + National Trust warns UK's most precious heritage at risk from extreme weather—A blurring of the distinctions between seasons is also a challenge for insects and their predators.
- + Deadline to record forgotten footpaths to be scrapped—Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.
- + Illegal trade booms in South Africa's 'super-strange looking' plants—A biodiversity hotspot has become the stomping ground of poachers.
- + Bird flu kills 20 big cats at US animal sanctuary —The animals - including a Bengal tiger, cougars and bobcats - have died of the virus over the past several weeks.
- + Penguins and iceberg-watching: Marking Christmas in Antarctica—Staff working out in the wilds of Antarctica share their Christmas Day plans.
- + Northern Lights: The aurora that dazzled us in 2024—There has been lots of aurora activity seen in the UK this year and there is likely to be even more in the coming year.
- + Spacecraft attempts closest-ever approach to Sun—The hope is the probe could help us to better understand how the Sun works.
- + Spacecraft attempts closest ever approach to Sun—It will plunge into our star's outer atmosphere to uncover its secrets
- + Scientists unveil 50,000-year-old baby mammoth remains—"Yana" is the latest pre-historic discovery in a crater in a remote region of Russia.
- + Bee-harming pesticides' emergency approvals to end—Planned legal changes will see three neonicotinoid pesticides completely banned from any future use.
- + Ancient landmarks closed off to walkers, campaigners say—They include a neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire and an Iron Age hill fort on the edge of Dartmoor.
- + Nasa astronauts Butch and Suni's homecoming delayed again—Nasa says that the astronauts stuck on the space station will have to wait even longer to get home.
- + Trouble in Arctic town as polar bears and people face warming world—Climate change makes it trickier for Churchill's residents to co-exist with increasingly hungry predators
- + Could this be what our home on Moon or Mars might look like?—India tested its first analog space mission in the Himalayan mountains of Ladakh.
- + Major report joins dots between world's nature challenges—A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
- + One in four properties at flood risk by 2050 - report—Climate change could increase flood threats without improvements to defences, the Environment Agency warns.
- + Government has broken the law on sewage, says watchdog—The OEP has ruled that it allowed excessive sewage into England's rivers and seas.
- + Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised—At least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten in a Bronze Age massacre in Somerset.
- + World's biggest iceberg heads north after escaping vortex—The world's biggest iceberg is drifting towards the Atlantic Ocean after being stuck near Antarctica.
- + Highland beaver release planned for Glen Affric—Forestry and Land Scotland has applied for a licence to release the animals on a loch.
- + A life-changing device for diabetics—Read the winning essay from the Young Science Writer of the Year 2024 award
- + Government unveils new powers to approve onshore wind farms—The change is part of the government's new action plan for meeting its 2030 clean power target.
- + Miliband unveils new powers to approve large wind farms—The change is part of the government's new action plan for meeting its 2030 clean power target.
- + Humans may not have survived without Neanderthals—A new DNA analysis has shown that the arrival of modern humans from Africa was far from smooth.
- + Rare dinosaur trio fetches £12.4m at auction —The skeletons - two Allosaurus and one Stegosaurus - date back approximately 150 million years.
- + 'Christmas lights' galaxy reveals how Universe formed—The galaxy resembling Christmas lights hanging in the cosmos has space scientists feeling festive
- + Seal colony thriving 'thanks to secluded site'—The National Trust hopes the colony will continue to grow and rival others along the coast.
- + Whale makes epic migration, astonishing scientists —A humpback whale makes one of the longest and most unusual migrations ever recorded, raising alarm.
- + How citizen scientists are uncovering the secret lives of blue whales—A thrifty study uncovers a wealth of data about one of the world's largest and most elusive species.
- + Nasa delays astronaut flight around the Moon—The US is pushing back its planned return to the Moon as it fixes a heat shield issue.
- + Wolves in EU lose safeguards, allowing culls as numbers soar—The European Commission says numbers have soared and the animals are now causing damage to livestock.
- + Wolves in EU could lose safeguards, allowing culls as numbers soar—The European Commission wants to change wolves' protected status, allowing nations to cull them.
- + Bee-harming pesticides found in majority of English waterways—The chemicals can harm insects and marine wildlife, environmental charities warn.
- + Top UN court to rule on key climate questions—The significant case could clarify governments' legal responsibilities in relation to climate change.
- + 'We're inundated with abandoned goats'—A shelter in Kent says it is struggling to cope with an influx of goats being dumped at its door.
- + Will flights really reach net zero by 2050 - and at what cost to passengers?—Governments don’t want to tell people they’re going to have to pay more, argues an expert.
- + Can flights really reach net zero by 2050 - and what will it cost holidaymakers?—Governments don’t want to tell people they’re going to have to pay more, argues an expert.
- + Sharp rise in bathing sites rated unfit for swimming—The government blames the water companies and says tougher regulation is on the way
- + Huge COP29 climate deal too little too late, poorer nations say—Richer countries have promised £238bn a year, but campaigners say it is far from enough.
- + Huge deal struck but is it enough? 5 takeaways from a dramatic COP29—Fraught debate revealed the divide between rich and poor as the UN conference sealed a climate finance deal.
- + Climate deal too little too late, poorer nations say—A deal is salvaged at the UN COP29 summit in Azerbaijan as poorer nations are promised record funding for climate action.
- + China's giant sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk—These caves were unexplored for thousands of years, protected by swirling mists and terrifying tales.
- + Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?—How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
- + Fury at climate talks over ‘backsliding’ on fossil fuels—Countries are split at UN climate summit over funding and commitments to reducing fossil fuel use.
- + Is nuclear power gaining new energy?—Countries around the world are building new nuclear power stations.
- + Living in Delhi smog is like watching a dystopian film again and again—Toxic, deadly, poisonous - these words are back in the headlines as Delhi’s pollution spikes again.
- + Flatulence tax: Denmark agrees deal for livestock emissions levy—It is part of a wider plan to reduce emissions and pollution and restore natural habitat.
- + 'The sixth great extinction is happening', conservation expert warns—Conservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.
- + Volcanoes once erupted on the far side of the moon—Volcanic rock, dating back billions of years, has been detected in the first samples collected from the mysterious "dark side".
- + New study on moons of Uranus raises chance of life—The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought.
- + Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why—Britain's oldest satellite is in the wrong part of the sky, but no-one's really sure who moved it.
- + This year set to be first to breach 1.5C global warming limit—It is also set to be the world's first breach of 1.5C of warming across an entire calendar year.
- + Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists —Representatives of 196 countries have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, as part of the COP biodiversity summit.
- + Deadliest weather made worse by climate change - scientists—Human-caused climate change made recent extreme weather events more intense and more likely, new analysis finds.
- + Nature presenter Chris Packham settles case over axing of green policy—The TV presenter says the previous Tory administration was "reckless" to scale back climate policy.
- + Alarm call as world's trees slide towards extinction—Scientists have revealed that more than a third of tree species are facing extinction.
- + World way off target in tackling climate change - UN—The world is wildly off track in tackling climate change, the UN says, as CO2 in the atmosphere accumulates faster than ever
- + Polar bears face higher risk of disease in a warming Arctic—Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests.
- + Mega meteorite tore up seabed and boiled Earth's oceans—It was 200 times bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs nearly three billion years later.
- + What is biodiversity and how can we protect it?—Colombia is hosting talks to assess global progress in protecting 30% of all land and water by 2030.
- + Burning rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power—Nearly half of waste is now burned for energy, but BBC analysis finds it is as dirty as coal.
- + What's next for Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship rocket?—The world's most powerful rocket is expected to be back in action again soon
- + How unusual has this hurricane season been?—Hurricanes Helene and Milton have bookended a particularly stormy period. What's behind it?
- + My pilgrimage to the vanishing Sphinx snow patch—The Sphinx, a patch of snow thought to be the longest-lasting in the UK, has melted for the fourth consecutive year.
- + Joyful welcome by stranded astronauts for SpaceX capsule crew—A capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station has docked.
- + Climate change supercharged Europe floods - scientists—A new study shows that the record-breaking rainfall was made more likely and intense by climate change.
- + Sir David Attenborough: 'The world would be worse off without our stories'—Sir David Attenborough praises the "beauty" created by the BBC in its natural history shows.
- + Astronauts reveal what life is like on ISS – and how they deal with 'space smell'—As Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spend months longer than planned on ISS, three astronauts tell us what life is like in orbit.
- + Titan sub disaster: Five key questions that remain—A public hearing is set to examine the events surrounding the catastrophic failure of Oceangate’s submersible.
- + Mystery tremors were from massive nine-day tsunami—Scientists launched an investigation after being baffled by seismic signals picked up across the world
- + The great gene editing debate: can it be safe and ethical?—A UK law allowing gene-edited food has been paused and some British scientists fear being overtaken.
- + Which rural area will take the UK’s nuclear waste?—The UK's nuclear waste needs a permanent home - but finding a community willing to take it is tricky.
- + Anti-pollution law to threaten water bosses with jail—New legislation gives regulators more powers to tackle water pollution in England and Wales.
- + Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks —Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust.
- + Europe's Ariane-6 rocket blasts off on maiden flight—After a successful launch, the upper-stage of the rocket goes on to experience an anomaly.
- + Who owns the Moon? A new space race means it could be up for grabs—A race for the lunar surface's resources is currently under way. What’s to stop a Wild West opening up?
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