Tropical forests destroyed at fastest recorded rate last year
Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year.
Thames Water halts bosses’ bonus scheme
The company pauses its “retention scheme”, which pays out cash to top executives linked to its rescue loan.
Sluggish sloth’s secrets of success revealed in new study
Scientists say early humans were to blame for many extinctions – but small tree-dwelling sloths survived.
Decades-long mystery of ginger cats revealed
Researchers in Japan and US have unlocked the 60-year mystery of what gives cats their orange colour.
Scientists propose novel way of treating mosquitoes for malaria
Normally the insects are targeted with insecticide, but US researchers say anti-malaria drugs absorbed through their legs can stop them spreading disease.
Exceptionally low river levels raise fears over water supplies
The warning comes after some parts of the UK had the driest Spring in nearly a century.
Wild chimpanzees filmed using forest ‘first aid’
The research builds on the discovery that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate.
Will this woman be the first Briton to walk on the Moon?
The BBC meets astronaut Rosemary Coogan who is training at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas.
Government says water company investigations have increased
The government says it has launched 81 criminal investigations for alleged breaches of environmental law.
Moon dust ‘rarer than gold’ arrives in UK from China
First Moon samples collected in nearly 50 years and loaned by China for the first time are now in the UK.
