Author: BBC News - Science & Environment

Taronga Zoo's baby pygmy hippopotamus - the first born in seven years - has made its…

Researchers in the US are working with dolphins in an effort to work out why closely…

Science correspondent Rebecca Morelle describes her violent encounter with Europe's most active volcano.

A computerised system for injecting medicine without using needles has won an innovation award at the…

A bird that watched its own reflection for hours becomes the subject of internet fun.

Fifty years ago, the supertanker the SS Torrey Canyon hit rocks off the coast of Cornwall,…

Researchers trace the parental history of Canadian rocks to a time just after Earth's formation.

Chile signs a historic deal with Kristine McDivitt Tompkins to create a "network of national parks”.

The UK's favourite yellow submarine is set to leave port for the Antarctic

Chase planes flying behind a jet are providing new insights into aircraft pollution.