From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightEPA The National Trust is planning to plant dozens of blossoming trees, including cherry, hazel and plum, at different sites around the UK. As part of the plan, a circle of 33…

From NPR Across the country, coal plants are shutting down. Wind turbines are going up. But the transition can be rocky. In North Dakota, some officials are trying to defend coal by blocking new wind turbines. (Image credit: Karen Bleier/AFP…

Smart cities are held up as beacons of hope in meeting the climate crisis. This is because they reduce greenhouse gas emissions by paring back energy use and urban waste. But is it possible the high-tech complexity of smart cities…

The planned construction of three luxury residential estates in vital wildlife refuge and popular tourist site Bokor National Park marks the latest update in a wider tale of loss for Cambodia’s native forests. Also known as Preah Monivong Bokor National…

From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightGo-Explore Scientists have come up with a computer program that can master a variety of 1980s exploration games, paving the way for more self-sufficient robots. They created a family of algorithms (software-based…

Three years ago, Panji Gusti Akbar was flipping through the pages of Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago when he came across a photo of a bird with brown wings and a black stripe across its brow, appropriately named the black-browed…

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting one of the most iconic African animals: the zebra. The plains zebra (Equus quagga), also known as…

From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightRoyal Mint/PA Wire The life of 19th Century fossil hunter Mary Anning is being celebrated with a new commemorative 50p coin collection. Anning discovered Jurassic skeletons in her hometown of Lyme Regis,…

From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing Zoo keepers have compiled the world’s largest collection of thermal images of elephants. The pictures show elephants in every pose as they play, eat and hang out in their enclosure at ZSL Whipsnade…

“If a tree lives 500 years, it carries the carbon assimilated and stocked for the last 500 years,” says Giuliano Locosselli, a researcher at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil. “If instead, the tree lives 300 years, it…