- BBC Science/Nature
- 11/4/6 10:16
A partnership bringing together scientists, the UN and landowners is set up to protect Mediterranean forests from threats, such as water scarcity and fires.
A partnership bringing together scientists, the UN and landowners is set up to protect Mediterranean forests from threats, such as water scarcity and fires.
A leak of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports.
As the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster approaches, the BBC's Daniel Sandford has been given rare access to the contaminated reactor block.
Sir Richard Branson is already selling tickets to fly people to the edge of space and now he wants to voyage to the bottom of the deepest oceans.
TUESDAY 5. APRIL 2011
A spate of deep-sea drilling projects includes plans to plumb the crater linked to the end of the dinosaurs, researchers say at the European Geophysical Union meeting.
The Californian SpaceX company says it plans to launch the most powerful rocket since the Apollo era next year.
A statue is to be erected in London to mark the achievements of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
Pictures from the early days of the space race
Officials in the Fukushima region of Japan start an emergency programme to measure radiation levels in school playgrounds.
Researchers discover a unique example of a plant living inside an animal - algae invading the cells of a salamander.
Do we ever find out the truth about why a plane crashed?
Jem Stansfield is helped by an explosives expert to demonstrate how much energy is locked up inside breakfast cereal.
An unprecedented loss of Arctic ozone, attributed to cold weather in the upper atmosphere, is reported at the European Geosciences Union meeting.
The chemical which summons stem cells from bone marrow to the site of a wound has been discovered by researchers in the UK and Japan.
A new crew for the International Space Station blast off from Russia's Baikonur space port in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket.
Two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut have begun a mission to the ISS aboard a Soyuz rocket that blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
MONDAY 4. APRIL 2011
Siting the headquarters for the world's biggest telescope at Jodrell Bank is a "great boost", say astronomers in Manchester.
Managing water is a priority for clear up at Japan nuclear plant
Why renewables are 'safer and cheaper' than nuclear power
TV scientist Dr Bronowski was labelled a security risk
Kate Adie celebrates the botanical paintings of Marianne North
Humble beginnings of the first man in space
SUNDAY 3. APRIL 2011
Melting mountain glaciers are making sea levels rise faster now than at any time in the last 350 years, say experts from Aberystwyth and Exeter.
An ailing giant turtle revered as a symbol of Vietnam's independence is finally captured for medical treatment.
SATURDAY 2. APRIL 2011
The Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire will be the headquarters for a £1.3bn project to build the world's biggest radio telescope.