- BBC Science/Nature
- 12/4/7 02:09
Why ex-England defender Gary Neville is checking football's footprint
Why ex-England defender Gary Neville is checking football's footprint
FRIDAY 6. APRIL 2012
A Chinese businessman pays $38,000 (£24,000) for a rare golden snapper fish caught on Thursday in the port city of Chittagong, fish traders say.
Eighteen Madagascan pochards - the world's most endangered duck - have hatched in a captive breeding centre.
Eighteen Madagascan pochards hatch in captivity, bringing the world population of this critically endangered duck to just 60, conservationists say.
Evan Davis finds out why improvements in rivers in Britain's towns and cities means
Is it possible to rebrand the controversial US beef product?
Cleaner urban rivers are getting anglers hooked
Ways UK officials could boost their surveillance powers
THURSDAY 5. APRIL 2012
Scientists find new evidence that resistance to the front-line treatments for malaria is increasing.
A hosepipe ban has been introduced across parts of southern and eastern England after two of the driest winters on record.
A teenager in Nepal is killed in what officials describe as a "rare" attack by a tiger, while separately three people are injured by a leopard.
Hosepipe bans affecting about 20 million customers have been introduced by seven water authorities in parts of southern and eastern England.
The US Coast Guard is preparing to sink a derelict Japanese fishing boat that has drifted across the Pacific to the Alaskan coast since the March 2011 tsunami.
The wreck of the Titanic, 4,000m under water off the coast of Canada, is to come under Unesco protection to prevent pillaging.
Hosepipe bans affecting about 20 million customers have been introduced by seven water authorities in parts of southern and eastern England.
The Large Hadron Collider is operating again after its winter break, and running at even high energies as it seeks new physics and a resolution to the hunt for the Higgs boson.
'Moving needle in a haystack': tracking wolves in America's north west
Did the owners really call it 'unsinkable'?
Astronomers battle the weather in usually the driest place on Earth
Inside US desert base that trains pilots to fly unmanned planes
WEDNESDAY 4. APRIL 2012
The Supreme Court in Chile has approved a plan to build a hydroelectric complex in the Patagonian wilderness, dismissing concerns by environmentalists.
A newly described relative of Tyrannosaurus rex is the largest known feathered animal - living or extinct.
New research provides compelling evidence that the last ice age was ended by a rise in temperature driven by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Researchers from three of the US's leading universities are teaming up on a $10m project to revolutionise robot production.
An exhibition that allows visitors to see underneath animals' skin.