By Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment reporter, BBC News
An invasive plant is emerging as a major problem in a Nepalese national park renowned for protecting endangered wildlife species, say scientists.
The Chitwan National Park is listed as a Unesco world heritage site and is a major tourist attraction.
It has been a huge conservation success story, with nearly [...]
By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent, BBC News
A consortium led by Thales Alenia Space of France will enter into negotiations for a 1.5bn-euro contract to build Europe’s next weather satellites.
The TAS group was selected after a competitive process run by the European Space Agency (Esa).
The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) system will comprise six satellites, with the [...]
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest physics experiment, has broken its own record for particle collisions.
On Friday morning, the machine created two beams of protons, each with an energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts.
The effort breaks the prior record, set by the LHC in December, of just over a trillion electron volts in [...]
The Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto says it has signed a deal with China to develop a massive iron ore project in West Africa.
China’s state metals group Chinalco will pay more than $1.3bn (£0.85bn) for a 47% stake in the Simandou project in Guinea, Rio Tinto said.
According to the company, Simandou is one of [...]
Habitat loss and deforestation are now endangering the survival of Asia’s flat-headed cat, a diminutive and little studied feline species.