The first stage of a planning process to build a coal plant with carbon capture technology in Ayrshire is to get under way.
Tourism bosses in Cumbria urge people to get in touch if they see a blooming daffodil, after the cold weather delays growth.
Scientists say they have been able to tell which past event a person is recalling using a brain scan.
The government has responded to the EU Noise Directive by publishing a long-delayed noise policy statement.
The largest meat-eating plant in the world eats animal poo study finds.
The first stage of a planning process to build a coal plant with carbon capture technology in Ayrshire is to get under way.
Songbirds on the US east coast are becoming smaller, a trend thought to be driven by climate changes.
Mystery surrounds the deaths of 75 starlings which fell from the sky.
The UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband is in China to hold discussions with the country's political leaders.
Europe is set to release its first non-native "biological control" species to curb the spread of Japanese knotweed.
A zebra at Zurich Zoo appeared doomed when visitors saw its head in the mouth of a hippo, but it was only cleaning its teeth.
A chameleon's ballistic tongue gives it an edge in the cold.
Fifty-one decapitated skeletons found in a burial pit in Dorset were those of Scandinavian Vikings, scientists say.
The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover.
A tiny group of bees act like "pied pipers" to trigger the explosive onset of bee swarms report scientists.
Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at a zoo in north-eastern China, raising fears over treatment of captive animals in the country.
Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem?
Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan.
Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists.
The mechanism by which thalidomide causes birth defects including malformed limbs is revealed by scientists.
Researchers in Edinburgh say they have solved the mystery of why some chickens hatch out half-male and half-female.
Commercial and political interests are abusing historical whaling rights of indigenous people.
EU nations decide to support a Atlantic bluefin tuna ban.
What Saturn's rings tell us about the entire Solar System
The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body.

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