Anna MeiselBBC File on 4 InvestigatesGetty ImagesThe UK generates about 50 million waste tyres every yearThe Environment Agency said it is introducing enhanced checks on the export of tyres...

Georgina RannardScience correspondentNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC)An artist's drawing of what the new planet might look like. Our Sun is the small dot of light between the...

Cuts of $500 million to vaccines research have been announced by the US government. Source link

Rebecca MorelleScience EditorAlison FrancisSenior Science JournalistDavid LochridgeDavid Lochridge was sacked after raising safety concernsWhen the Titan submersible went missing during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic in...

Georgina RannardScience correspondentNASAA concept image of NASA's Fission Surface Power ProjectUS space agency Nasa will fast-track plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, according to...

A volcano in far eastern Russia has erupted for the first time in more than 500 years, which experts say may be linked to last week's massive earthquake.The Krasheninnikov...

Imogen FoulkesGeneva correspondentBBCIn a small village in Switzerland's beautiful Loetschental valley, Matthias Bellwald walks down the main street and is greeted every few steps by locals who smile or...

Georgina RannardScience correspondentG Caspari and M VavulinScans of the ice mummy's skin revealed details of animals and birds on her arms and handsHigh-resolution imaging of tattoos found on a...

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsWatch: some of the strange, extreme life filmed at the depths of the oceanBeds of clams, mats of bacteria that look like ice and fields...

The 8.8 magnitude quake sent tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the US west coast. Source link

Esme Stallard and Mark PoyntingBBC News Climate and ScienceS. Lakamov/Anadolu/Getty ImagesDebris in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula after a 8.8 magnitude earthquakeIt has been one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded...

The government has increased the maximum price it is prepared to guarantee companies generating electricity from new wind farms.It comes as ministers are trying to meet challenging pledges to...