www.fgks.org   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

British Broadcasting Corporation

BBC News Updated every minute of every day

watch One-Minute World News
News Front Page
Africa
Americas
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Middle East
South Asia
UK
Business
Health
Science & Environment
Technology
Entertainment
Also in the news
-----------------
Video and Audio
-----------------
Have Your Say
In Pictures
Country Profiles
Special Reports

Related BBC sites
Science & Environment

Page last updated at 20:04 GMT, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:04 UK

Limusarus fossil (James Clark)
New dinosaur gives bird wing clue
A new fossil has shed light on how the bones of a five-fingered dinosaur evolved in to a modern bird's wing.

Dingo. Image: Dave Wats / naturepl.com Dingoes 'could help rare species'
Replenishing huge areas of Australia with dingoes would help endangered animals and could aid some farmers, researchers say.

Rat in a fruit bowl Rats play odds in gambling task
Rats play the odds to maximise their gains, say researchers who have designed a rodent task to test the biology of gambling.

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Tokamak (JET)
Fusion faltering?
Soaring costs threaten a major international project to build a nuclear fusion reactor
Q&A: Nuclear fusion reactor
Hydrogen car with inventor Open road
Why a new hydrogen car is going 'open source'
BBC News Green Room logo Green China
Is China to blame for the world's environment woes?
Lizard Wildlife wonders
Stunning new species found in South America

THE GREEN ROOM
Environmental opinion and debate
EARTH NEWS
Reporting life on Earth
Humpback whale Saving the seas for marine mammals
Fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) The secrets of ant sleep revealed
Leading by achievable example

Reindeer herds in global decline


MORE STORIES

SCIENCE

Soil samples reveal Mesolithic Wales
Europe Mars mission scaled back
Drayson supports oversight call
Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil
Contracts give impetus to Galileo

ENVIRONMENT

Female baboons exploit chaperones
Blue butterfly colonies thriving
The cephalopods can hear you
'Teenage' Andes could collapse
Nature reforms for Scotland

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Goldies' Bird of Paradise, by William Hart Darwin and art
How the father of evolutionary theory inspired artists
Richard Black Earth Watch
Conservation feels the world's financial squeeze
Rainbow Grey sky research
Can bacteria change the weather?
OTHER TOP STORIES
Shuttle launch delayed until July
'Major Tim will get into space'
Noise fear for Zimbabwe elephants
2,500-year-old bird's nest found
High-speed 'wedge' for re-entry
ALSO IN THE NEWS
Nine-spined stickleback fish The stickleback - 'forgotten genius' of the fish world

Captain Robert Scott Scott of the Antarctic's hotel 'saved' by new backer

THE BIG PICTURE

Click to reveal

VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
Smoking chimneys China's 'end of the world' city

Shark Scottish shark tagging project begins

listen Science in Action
listen The Material World
listen Listen to Digital Planet


MOST POPULAR STORIES

From Science/Environment in the past week

ELSEWHERE ON THE BBC

Village SOS, Apply now.


Skip to top

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Explore the BBC

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.
Americas Africa Europe Middle East South Asia Asia Pacific