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Warm world will be more fragrant
Climate change will make the world more fragrant, as warming temperatures make plants release more chemicals, according to a major scientific review.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 9 Feb 2010 | 9:49 am
Digital code set up for children
First there was the Green Cross Code - but parents are now being told to teach their children the Digital Code for online safety.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 9 Feb 2010 | 8:27 am
Smartphone keys get quantum trick
A quantum physics trick is set to give smartphones and hand-held devices pressure-sensitive switches and touchscreens.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 9 Feb 2010 | 1:04 am
Climate change impact of soil underestimated: study
HELSINKI (AFP) - Finnish researchers called for a revision of climate change estimates Monday after their findings showed emissions from soil would contribute more to climate warming than previously thought.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 8 Feb 2010 | 8:30 pm
Green pounds
Eco-towns earmarked for government cash
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 8 Feb 2010 | 5:58 pm
Enceladus water story reinforced
The Cassini probe returns yet more data to back up the idea of a sub-surface sea on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 8 Feb 2010 | 5:16 pm
First film of giant deep-sea fish
Scientists film the giant serpent-like oarfish in its natural deep-sea habitat for the first time, as well as the rare manefish.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 8 Feb 2010 | 1:23 pm
Shuttle makes final night flight
The US space agency (Nasa) has launched its shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 8 Feb 2010 | 9:17 am
Robo-soldiers
Can 'well-behaved' robots make the battlefield safer?
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 8 Feb 2010 | 1:36 am
Genes reveal 'biological ageing'
Scientists say they have pinpointed gene variants that might show how fast people's bodies are ageing.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 8 Feb 2010 | 12:23 am
Spaceman
America ponders the options for a big rocket
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 7 Feb 2010 | 9:03 pm
Urban growth, farm exports drive tropical deforestation
PARIS (AFP) - The biggest causes of deforestation in tropical countries are population growth in cities and agricultural exports, a finding that should shape decisions on preventing forest loss, experts said Sunday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 7 Feb 2010 | 9:01 pm
Climate scepticism 'on the rise'
The British public has become increasingly sceptical about climate change, a poll for BBC News suggests.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 7 Feb 2010 | 12:02 pm
Dinosaur footprint haul in China
Scientists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing in the same direction.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 6 Feb 2010 | 3:29 pm
In pictures
The troubles faced by the world's largest amphibian
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 6 Feb 2010 | 7:54 am
Birds that use their feathers like cats use their whiskers
Birds may use their feathers for touch - to feel their surroundings just as cats use their whiskers, scientists find.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Feb 2010 | 5:49 pm
Insects migrate in wind highways
Migrating insects use highways in the sky to speed their journey, according to a study published in Science magazine.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Feb 2010 | 2:47 pm
Dynamic Pluto revealed in images
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the icy dwarf planet Pluto undergoes dramatic seasonal changes.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Feb 2010 | 12:47 pm
Embattled climate chief supported
India gives its full support to embattled climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri, under attack over recent scientific errors.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Feb 2010 | 12:08 pm
Computing ace
The computer that laid the foundations of the internet
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Feb 2010 | 11:15 am
Shackleton's whisky dug from South Pole ice
Five crates of Scotch whisky and brandy belonging to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton have been recovered from the ice after a century.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Feb 2010 | 9:56 am
Russia 'dumped waste in Baltic'
The Russian military dumped nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, Swedish media reports say.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am
Ancient Indian language dies out
The last speaker of the Bo language in India's Andaman Islands dies at the age of about 85, a leading linguist says.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 4 Feb 2010 | 6:28 pm
How spider webs capture water
A new study reveals the structural secrets that allow spider webs to capture water droplets from the air.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 4 Feb 2010 | 4:20 pm
Sea drifters
Colourful images of plankton in the world's oceans
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 4 Feb 2010 | 3:50 pm
Extraordinary owl preys on sloth
The first evidence of a sloth that has been killed by a owl.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 4 Feb 2010 | 12:33 pm
Scan unlocks vegetative patients
Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 3 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
Exoplanet gas spotted from Earth
Astronomers have used a new ground-based technique to study the atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 3 Feb 2010 | 8:53 pm
13 Spanish towns bid for nuclear waste site
MADRID (AFP) - Thirteen Spanish towns have bid to host a major new nuclear waste storage site, a long-delayed project that is fiercely opposed by environmentalists, the government announced Wednesday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 3 Feb 2010 | 6:44 pm
Saturn mission 'extended again'
The US space agency (Nasa) has extended the Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn once again.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 3 Feb 2010 | 6:39 pm
France backs ban on tuna exports
France backs calls for a ban on the global trade in bluefin tuna, the numbers of which have dwindled through overfishing.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 3 Feb 2010 | 5:47 pm
Cameroon police seize 700 parrots at airport
YAOUNDE (AFP) - Police in Cameroon seized nearly 700 parrots at an airport as they were about to be smuggled out of the country, a source close to the case said on Wednesday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 3 Feb 2010 | 5:05 pm
Trident upgrade safe amid defence rethink
The Government will not halt plans to update Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent despite facing "tough choices" on defence spending.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 3 Feb 2010 | 2:06 pm
Uproar in Brazil over huge Amazon dam plan
BRASILIA (AFP) - A controversial plan to build an immense dam in Brazil's rainforest endorsed this week has attracted a formidable bloc of opponents: ecologists, indigenous Indians and Sting.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 3 Feb 2010 | 11:38 am
Wolverine numbers 'melting away'
A significant decline in predatory wolverines across North America is linked to melting snowpacks, say researchers.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 3 Feb 2010 | 10:46 am
'Tough choices' as defence blueprint unveiled
The Government is to unveil its blueprint for the future of the armed forces for the first time in more than a decade.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 3 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am
Brazil uproar over massive Amazon dam plan
BRASILIA (AFP) - Environmentalists, indigenous groups and British rock star Sting have denounced a government plan to build the world's third largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon river basin, which they claim will devastate the region.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 3 Feb 2010 | 2:33 am
Heavy rains bring Spanish wetlands back to life
MADRID (AFP) - An environmentally valuable expanse of Spanish wetlands that dried up through mismanagement of water resources and drought is once again awash with water due to heavy rainfall, an official said Tuesday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Environment News Headlines | Science | 2 Feb 2010 | 8:05 pm
Copenhagen - the Munich of our times?
The Copenhagen Climate Accord was a "failure of historic proportions" and hardly worth the paper it's printed on.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 2 Feb 2010 | 4:36 pm
easyJet set for ClearFlight
easyJet has signed a multi-year contract with the Met Office to use our ClearFlight service.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 1 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am
Forecasts on the move with iPhone
Weather forecasts from the Met Office are now available on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 1 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am
We cannot buy Earth more time
Global economic growth, in its current form, cannot continue if nations are serious about curbing climate change.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2010 | 12:14 pm
Snow and ice for northern Britain
Wintry conditions continue across northern Britain, where snow and ice are expected in some areas tonight.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 21 Jan 2010 | 3:10 pm
Met Office supports ShelterBox with forecasts for Haiti
We are supporting ShelterBox by providing daily weather forecasts for Haiti to help with its relief operations.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 21 Jan 2010 | 3:10 pm
The big chill - how did we do?
Since mid-December we've seen some of the severest winter weather in the UK for decades. It's been a testing time for our forecasters - but how accurate have we been?
Source: Met Office News Releases | 14 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm
More snow as thaw continues
The battle continues between the cold air currently over the UK and milder conditions trying to push in from the Atlantic.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 12 Jan 2010 | 3:40 pm
What's causing the cold weather?
The UK has seen some exceptionally cold and snowy weather - but what's causing the freezing conditions and what's going on in the rest of the world?
Source: Met Office News Releases | 6 Jan 2010 | 5:10 pm
Widespread, heavy snow
Met Office review of the heavy snowfall which hit the UK this week.
Source: Met Office News Releases | 23 Dec 2009 | 4:30 pm
Richard Black on what's happening to our shared environment
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 9 Dec 2009 | 4:04 pm
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