The proposed measure is likely to be dropped from an animal welfare bill, after ministers raised…
Category: BBC Science & Technology News
BBC
Climate change: Covid shutdown linked to record rainfall in China
An abrupt drop in emissions due to the pandemic played a key role in record rainfall…
Natural History Museum confirms stick insect is male and female
Charlie the pet stick insect is revealed to be both male and female after moulting. …
How 8 million trees were brought down in one winter
Hundreds of thousands more are now threatened by Storms Dudley and Eunice bearing down on Britain. …
Pharmaceuticals in rivers threaten world health – study
Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected, research finds. Click…
Rocket part on crash course with Moon 'not from Elon Musk's SpaceX'
Astronomers no longer believe a rocket stage that’s due to hit the Moon was from Elon…
Amazon deforestation: Record high destruction of trees in January
An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed. …
Life could exist on planet orbiting 'white dwarf' star
Experts may have detected a planet in the habitable zone of a nearly dead star called…
Koalas: Australia lists marsupial as endangered species
The koala was not even classified as vulnerable until 2012, but it has seen a rapid…
The engineers battling to stop global warming ruining roads
Climate change is putting roads under stress but research is finding ways to make them more…