http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa The latest stories from the Science & Environment section of the BBC News web site. en-gb Fri, 25 May 2012 21:57:40 GMT Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/rss/4498287.stm for terms and conditions of reuse. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/nol/shared/img/bbc_news_120x60.gif http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa 120 60 15 The latest round of UN climate talks makes little progress against a "coalition of the unwilling", observers say. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18210642#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18210642 Fri, 25 May 2012 18:53:52 GMT Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed some of the articles in the controversial forest code, which environmentalists say could speed up deforestation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18213892#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18213892 Fri, 25 May 2012 20:43:06 GMT Researchers excavating a cave in Germany identify what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196349#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196349 Fri, 25 May 2012 11:03:50 GMT The first commercial cargo ship to visit the space station is attached to the orbiting laboratory by a robotic arm. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18195772#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18195772 Fri, 25 May 2012 16:04:29 GMT The Square Kilometre Array - one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century - will be hosted by both Africa and Australasia. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18194984#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18194984 Fri, 25 May 2012 14:30:22 GMT It may be possible to make a new form of male contraceptive after scientists in Edinburgh find a critical gene for the production of healthy sperm. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18190352#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18190352 Thu, 24 May 2012 23:04:41 GMT Two officers of the container ship that ran aground off New Zealand causing its worst maritime spill are jailed for seven months. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18202962#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18202962 Fri, 25 May 2012 07:50:37 GMT New evidence from carbon in meteorites suggests that the basic building blocks of life are present on Mars, a study in Science journal says. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196353#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196353 Fri, 25 May 2012 01:13:09 GMT Once rare brown argus butterflies have been moving north due to a pattern of hot summers, say researchers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18174452 http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18174452 Thu, 24 May 2012 18:13:37 GMT Radiation levels in most of Japan are below cancer-causing levels a year after the Fukushima plant accident, a World Health Organisation report says. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18181224#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18181224 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:03:54 GMT Science minister David Willetts outlines the government's high-tech industrial strategy and announces £250m in funding for research institutes across the UK http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18195210#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18195210 Thu, 24 May 2012 16:18:20 GMT The government delays the reduction in the subsidies on offer to homeowners who install solar panels to generate electricity. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18192302#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18192302 Thu, 24 May 2012 14:26:32 GMT Conservationists in the Philippines express outrage over what they say is a lenient punishment for a farmer who shot and ate a rare eagle. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18187076#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18187076 Thu, 24 May 2012 12:00:36 GMT A grid of 25,000 "invisibility cloaks" shows how to slow light down and spread out its constituent colours in an advance dubbed "trapping a rainbow". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18181201#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18181201 Fri, 25 May 2012 08:02:22 GMT How a giant touchscreen is teaching surgeons http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18088337#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18088337 Thu, 24 May 2012 01:43:20 GMT An ancient creature thought to be the first to step on land could not have walked on four legs, 3D computer modelling shows. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18177493#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18177493 Wed, 23 May 2012 18:48:19 GMT Scientists in Israel say they have managed to turn patients' own skin cells into heart muscle in the lab. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18158122#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18158122 Wed, 23 May 2012 01:55:36 GMT The inventor of the television remote control, Eugene Polley, dies of natural causes, aged 96, in a Chicago hospital. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18164200#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18164200 Tue, 22 May 2012 20:23:35 GMT The head of Nasa has hailed a "new era" in exploration after the launch of the first cargo delivery to the space station by a private company. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18154937#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18154937 Tue, 22 May 2012 16:56:13 GMT A UK-Swiss team is to use genetic testing to investigate the origins of remains claimed to have come from "yetis" and "bigfoot". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18160673#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18160673 Tue, 22 May 2012 15:57:28 GMT Conservationists condemn a plan they say would allow buzzard nests to be destroyed and the birds to be captured, to protect pheasant shoots. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18183204#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18183204 Thu, 24 May 2012 01:16:32 GMT Care must be taken not to spread deep-sea creatures around the world during exploration of the remote ocean floor, scientists caution. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18180928#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18180928 Thu, 24 May 2012 01:15:20 GMT A minister in Ivory Coast is sacked over his alleged role in the disappearance of millions of dollars meant for the victims of a toxic waste dumping scandal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18173363#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18173363 Wed, 23 May 2012 19:07:39 GMT A sensory organ discovered in the jaw of the world's largest whales explains how the animals open their huge mouths so quickly, say scientists. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18174525 http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18174525 Wed, 23 May 2012 19:22:22 GMT Researchers find that ground-dwelling invertebrates such as harvestmen and beetles preferentially live near street lights, even during the day. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18158529#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18158529 Wed, 23 May 2012 07:55:21 GMT The biggest environmental summit for a decade needs to deliver meaningful progress on global food security sustainable agriculture, say researchers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18160089#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18160089 Wed, 23 May 2012 10:53:48 GMT Chimps and orangutans really do have "personalities like people", new research says http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18146336 http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18146336 Wed, 23 May 2012 09:15:28 GMT Great white egrets are nesting in the UK for the first time at the Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve in Somerset. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18118985 http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18118985 Tue, 22 May 2012 06:38:19 GMT The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Panama is six weeks away and it's shaping up to be an important and perhaps defining moment. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18101320#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18101320 Fri, 18 May 2012 18:11:13 GMT Scientists are awaiting the announcement of a decision on where the world's biggest and most powerful radio telescope will be built. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18159389#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18159389 Fri, 25 May 2012 00:25:47 GMT The England & Wales Cricket Board have won the BMJ Sport and Exercise Team of the Year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18184614#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18184614 Fri, 25 May 2012 00:43:16 GMT Patrick Sachon explains how the Met Office counts pollen from the roof and labs of King's College London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17944765#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17944765 Tue, 22 May 2012 23:04:42 GMT Consumers could see an extra £105 per year on their bills by 2030, to help pay for a new generation of nuclear power stations and wind farms. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18165853#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18165853 Tue, 22 May 2012 21:49:13 GMT Conservationists say they're outraged by proposals to allow Buzzards to be captured and their nests destroyed in an effort to protect young pheasants in England. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18186423#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18186423 Thu, 24 May 2012 06:02:18 GMT Spencer Kelly reports on how farmers in India are using mobile phone technology to help ease their workload. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9722077.stm#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9722077.stm Tue, 22 May 2012 07:34:14 GMT The first ever commercial space cargo flight has left Cape Canaveral in Florida. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18165913#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18165913 Tue, 22 May 2012 19:05:13 GMT Researchers from Kinki university develop building material capable of absorbing caesium from radioactive contaminated water. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18155176#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18155176 Tue, 22 May 2012 16:52:44 GMT Excavations reveal a medieval luxury shopping mall http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18199623#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18199623 Fri, 25 May 2012 11:09:57 GMT Arabian leopard bred for release into wild http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196350#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196350 Thu, 24 May 2012 23:59:16 GMT Will ministers regulate consumption at Rio+20? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18187399#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18187399 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:51:47 GMT World's fastest car will have wheels made in Scotland http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18142709#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18142709 Thu, 24 May 2012 13:07:00 GMT Flower Show winner's guide to the perfect garden http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18117230 http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18117230 Fri, 25 May 2012 01:06:38 GMT Mars rover snaps a picture of its winter home http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18181200#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18181200 Wed, 23 May 2012 15:29:08 GMT