Science

Singapore imports 90% of its food and 744,000 tonnes of this was wasted in 2019. Seventeen-year-old Shan wants to find out about possible solutions to the problem. He says that looking into the issue opened his eyes to the “sheer scale of food wastage”, but he learned that tackling waste can help the community as

Professor Jessica Meeuwig, the Director of the Centre for Marine Futures at the University of Western Australia, has told the BBC about her hopes for a new ocean monitoring system. The UK government funded project, known as BRUVS, will focus on monitoring marine life in ten British Overseas Territories including Pitcairn and Ascension Island. Video

A massive tree felling operation has been going on in the vast Kielder Forest of Northumberland for the last few weeks. Thousands of trees have been cut down as part of a project that claims to be improving the environment and tackling climate change. The BBC’s chief environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt reports on work to

A critically endangered Australian bird is being taught its own song in captivity in the hope of conserving the species in the wild. Researchers found that around 12% of adult male regent honeyeater birds were singing the songs of other species instead of their own song. It is thought that with 300 of the birds

Texas beekeeper Erika Thompson rescued a nest of bees that had been stuck under the floorboards of a garden shed for over two years, in a video that has since gone viral. Since posting the video online on Friday, it has been viewed over 1.5 million times on Twitter. She said the reaction to the

To mark British Science Week the Queen has taken part in a virtual event with experts and schoolchildren. During the video call, hosted by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, she was shown pictures from Nasa’s latest mission to Mars, a meteorite that fell to Earth and rockets made by schoolchildren as part of their science project.

On 11 March 2011, Japan’s most powerful earthquake on record triggered a tsunami, which then caused a meltdown at a nuclear power plant. The disaster left 18,000 people dead, wiped entire towns off the map and forced more than 150,000 people from their homes as radiation leaked from the plant. The government estimates the disaster

Imagine hearing a thud and then discovering outside your home the most valuable space rock ever to fall in the UK. Well, that’s what happened to Rob and Cathryn Wilcock, and their daughter Hannah. They, and the other residents of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, react to being at the centre of a major scientific discovery. Read

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is washing up on coral reefs close to the Philippine capital, Manila. According to an estimate by the Asian Development Bank, during the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak, the city could have been generating up to 280 tonnes of extra medical waste per day. Environmental groups are warning that the plastic

A rare black fox has been caught on camera prowling around a garden in west London. It was spotted by Faroz and his daughter Sophia, from Isleworth, who first thought it was a wolf, or a wild dog. The animals are a type of North American red fox with a trait that makes their fur

Researchers hoping to collect mud samples deep beneath an Antarctic ice sheet were amazed to find small creatures living in the dark, freezing water. Experts from the British Antarctic Survey say the discovery of filter-feeding animals clinging to a rock was unexpected, because of the lack of food and sunlight. Video produced by Trystan Young.

CCTV cameras will soon have a new target – litter louts. AI software can now match footage of motorists throwing rubbish to their car’s number plate and issue an automatic fine of £90. The first trial of the potentially controversial new system will begin in Maidstone in Kent in a few weeks with other councils

A Greenpeace ship has been dropping huge boulders into the sea off Brighton this week to stop fishing boats from trawling the sea bed.  The action is part of campaign to tighten restrictions on the most destructive forms of fishing in protected areas of UK waters.  But leaders of the fishing community describe the action

A giant telescope that could eavesdrop on the activity of advanced extraterrestrial life is hoped to become a reality within five years, scientists said. The group plan to raise £1m to build a 100m-long (328ft) telescope that will listen out for activities in space like “asteroid mining” and “spacecraft propulsion systems”. The project would be

The bloom of an Amazonian moonflower, believed to be a “UK first”, has been captured in a time-lapse film. The Selenicereus wittii, a cactus within the collection at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, has drawn attention from around the world as it only blossoms for 12 hours. It was thought the plant would blossom at night,

A wild swimmer rescued a bird trapped in ice in a frozen pond. The woman, who did not want to be identified, spotted the grebe at Rickmansworth Aquadrome in Hertfordshire and smashed her way through thick ice to reach it. Passers-by clapped when she returned to the bank and handed the bird to wildlife sanctuary