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The UN Secretary-General asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body.

Reports indicate that the EU has decided to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna.

Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists.

The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned.

The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.

The science spokesmen of the three main political parties cross swords on the issue of UK research funding.

Research shows some EU countries import about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries.

A plant-eating predator that preys on aggressive superweed Japanese knotweed is to be given a trial release in England.

The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover.

A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers.

Environmentalists and the EU lock horns over biofuels

Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem?

UK Skynet: Not to be confused with The Terminator

Whales and tuna tied up in Eurotangle

The UK's foray into bio-control breaks important ground

One of the loneliest flowers on Earth in all its glory

Commercial and political interests are abusing historical whaling rights of indigenous people.

Once a species becomes extinct, they are quickly forgotten and the activities that led to their demise continue regardless.

Mystery surrounds the deaths of 75 starlings which fell from the sky on to the driveway of a Somerset house.

Chameleon have a hidden advantage as hunters, a ballistic tongue that works well in the cold.

Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces.

Former Labour and Conservative science ministers challenge the next UK government to maintain investment in science.

A Tory-backed report urges incentives for schools and tax breaks for researchers to raise the profile of science.

Scientists may have identified the first specks of interstellar dust in material collected by the Nasa Stardust spacecraft.

An international panel of experts has endorsed the idea that an asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs.

One of our closest primate relatives, the bonobo, prefers to share its food rather than dine alone, scientists report.

The UK Met Office says evidence that human activity is causing climate change is stronger now than in a 2007 assessment.

There are growing concerns about the future of the Lough Neagh eel fishery and the hundreds of jobs it supports.

Two tiger cubs are found dead, apparently after being poisoned, at a national park in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

A frog species thought to have been extinct for more than three decades has been sighted in farmland in Australia.