Tag: Environment

The beleaguered bumblebee faces a new threat, scientists say.

Palm trees, Vegas-style clubs, tax-free salaries, perfectly manicured promenades.

Scientists have made an impassioned plea for humanity to pause and think before making a headlong rush to exploit the deep sea.

The British Army and emergency services have rescued 32 people trapped by surging flood water in a beachfront restaurant in Hampshire.

US scientists have developed small robots that behave much like termites.

Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa, on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England.

Until three decades ago, the area around the River Chambal in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh was inhabited by gun-brandishing,

Experts are concerned about the spread of a new strain of bird flu that has already killed one woman in China.

Wind power has not kept pace with solar and has had bad luck with PR recently (remember the eagles?), but construction activity is ramping up, which bodes well for the months ahead, said SNL, a firm specializing in energy company…

A flamingo believed to be the oldest of its kind in the world has died at the age of 83 in Australia.

Farmers getting public grants should be forced to capture water on their land to prevent floods downstream, environmentalists have said.

A high level seminar on ‘Sustainable Development: Bangladesh Perspective’ was held today (January 29, 2014) at the Jahangir Alam Conference Hall of Bangladesh Bank. Eminent economist, development thinker and practitioner Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmed was the keynote speaker. The seminar…

Exposure to a once widely used pesticide, DDT, may increase the chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease, suggest US researchers.

Seoul – South Korea is expanding a poultry cull in a bid to contain the spread of bird flu that has been found on an increasing number of farms around the country and in migratory birds.

Visiting the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Stefan Gates finds people living on toxic land.

Its been almost 30 years since the rare jaguarundi was last spotted in Texas, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has plans to change that.

Berlin – Germany’s new energy minister has outlined cuts in subsidies to producers of renewable energy as the country wrestles with soaring costs from its nuclear power exit, according to a document obtained by AFP Sunday.

Simply put, it’s cold out there, and people are doing some crazy things to keep warm.

Substantial cuts to the government’s environment department budget will hamper its future ability to cope with emergencies such as flooding, MPs fear.

Washington – Sharpshooters will renew culling the white-tailed deer population, growing fast in the heart of the U.S. capital, as early as Thursday night, the National Park Service said.

Environmentally 2013 is a remarkable year. A year in review marks the good and the bad.

Unexplained plumes of radioactive steam have been rising from Fukushima’s Reactor Building 3, Could a major meltdown be on the way?

As the new year begins, the BBC’s science and environment journalists look ahead to what we can expect to see in the headlines in 2014.

Hundreds of thousands of households in Canada and the northern US are facing a Christmas without electricity after a severe ice storm.

UK sovereign base areas (SBAs) in Cyprus have become illegal bird-trapping “hotspots”, according to research.

Zebras’ bold stripes protect the animals by masking their movements, according to a study.

Cattle are the biggest source of greenhouse gases, accounting for more than three-quarters of all emissions from global livestock, a survey shows.

The bounce back in the extent of sea ice in the Arctic this summer was reflected also in the volume of ice.

The BBC has included a making-of segment in its new nature documentary Hidden Kingdoms, explaining to viewers how some scenes have been re-enacted.

A book of environmental policy guidelines named “Dhaka Announcement 2010”, for political parties and the next government was unveiled in Dhaka on Saturday. The Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) and Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) prepared and unveiled at a press conference…