Australian bandicoot brought back from brink of extinction

The small furry Eastern Barred Bandicoot is bumped off an Australian “extinct in the wild” list. …

Unmanned submarine earmarked for Irish Sea freight crossings

A start-up company has been given £380,000 to develop the hydrogen-powered concept. Click here…

Pakistan: How to cool Karachi as temperatures rise

In Karachi, Pakistan, one entrepreneur is on a mission to plant urban forests to cope with…

Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs shaped fortunes of snakes

Snakes owe their success in part to the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs 66…

Climate change: Young people very worried – survey

Over half of respondents in a survey believe humanity is doomed and governments are failing to…

Green jobs: The new generation of workers making it work for them

Science editor David Shukman on three jobs in growing green industries, and what it’s like to…

Life at 50C: The toxic gas flares fuelling Nigeria's climate change

Joy and her family are among 2m Nigerians living within 4km of a gas flare in…

Megapod of feeding humpback whales in Australia 'so special'

More than 100 humpback whales have been filmed feeding off Australia’s New South Wales coast. …

Climate change: World now sees twice as many days over 50C

BBC research finds the number of days passing 50C has doubled in the past 40 years. …

Record number of environmental activists murdered

More than 220 environment and land rights activists were murdered last year, according to a report. …