The European brown bear's love of electricity and telegraph poles is helping scientists gain new insights into its behaviour.

The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body.

EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.

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

Environmentalists and the EU lock horns over biofuels

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

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

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

Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem?

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

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

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

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

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.