22 minutes ago Helen Briggs, Environment Correspondent, BBC News, @hbriggs Pol Fernandez The rare fern is found on the Pacific island territory of New Caledonia A fern has entered the record books for having more DNA than any other living thing. The plant’s genetic material, or genome, would reach about 100 metres when unravelled, outstripping...
Matthew Sherman Mr Cooper’s discovery reassembled in New York The first stegosaurus skeleton to go under the hammer is set to fetch millions of dollars in New York. But the extraordinary discovery was made by chance, thousands of miles away out west during one man’s birthday stroll, writes Stephen Smith. It’s every child’s dream to...
Just now Jonathan Amos,Science correspondent, @BBCAmos NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Brant Robertson et al The distant galaxy (circled) sits next to, but far behind, another galaxy The James Webb Space Telescope has smashed its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy. Called JADES-GS-z14-0, the collection of stars was spied as it was a mere 290 million years...
Just now Jonathan Amos,Science correspondent, @BBCAmos Esa Artwork: It’s taken fully 20 years to get Earthcare into space A sophisticated joint European-Japanese satellite has launched to measure how clouds influence the climate. Some low-level clouds are known to cool the planet, others at high altitude will act as a blanket. The Earthcare mission will use...
22 minutes ago Susie Bearne,Technology Reporter Uravu The founders of Uravu (left to right) Govinda Balaji, Swapnil Shrivastav, Venkatesh Raja When a severe drought hit the Indian city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, in 2016, residents including student Swapnil Shrivastav had access to a limited amount of water each day. “We were rationed to...
5 minutes ago Georgina Rannard,BBC climate and science reporter BBC/Gwyndaf Hughes A plant that went extinct in the wild has been re-introduced to the UK mainland. We can’t tell you the exact location – it’s a secret, to keep it safe. It’s just one small plant but with one in six species in the UK...
The government has won a legal challenge brought by environmental campaigners over pollution in the River Wye. Campaign group River Action argued that the Environment Agency had not been tough enough on farmers who it said had been spreading too much chicken manure on their fields. But on Friday the High Court ruled that the...
2 hours ago Mark Poynting,Climate reporter NOAA/Getty Images Hurricane Lee, above, rapidly intensified into a category five hurricane last year The North Atlantic could get as many as seven major hurricanes of category three strength or over this year, which would be more than double the usual number, the US weather agency NOAA has warned....
3 hours ago Harry Roy,BBC Radio Newcastle ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA Durham University scientists form part of the Euclid team A space mission involving Durham University scientists, designed to help understand the dark Universe, has released five new and spectacular images. The university is a key partner of the European Space Agency’s (Esa) Euclid space telescope, which...
7 minutes ago Malcolm Prior,BBC News rural affairs producer Getty Images Wildfires linked to climate change are placing greater demand on fire crews Vital equipment used by firefighters to tackle environmental disasters and terror attacks needs to be “urgently” replaced at an estimated cost of £100m, the BBC has learnt. The specialist hardware – used...