Why the EU must not dim its ambition to phase out wasteful light bulbs

EU plans to phase out the use of traditional light-bulbs need to be a shining example for the rest of the world to follow.

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Obama to 'engage' on climate

US President-elect Barack Obama promises to "engage vigorously" on climate change, ahead of a major UN summit.

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Space crunch

Balancing space ambitions against limited funds

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Lost in space: Tool trouble for astronaut

Spacewalking astronauts working on the International Space Station lose a tool bag in orbit.

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Final plea on Earth observation

Leading Earth observation scientists urge Gordon Brown to back Europe's environmental monitoring project, GMES.

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Mardell's Europe

Why fishermen are letting their cod slip the net

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Good vibration

Volcano prediction garners award for Scottish scientist

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Mammoth's genome pieced together

A US-Russian team announces that it has sequenced most of the genome of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia.

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Slow progress on ocean protection

Two year after pledging to protect 10% of the oceans, governments have protected less than 1%, a survey finds.

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Big cat fossil found in North Sea

A fossilised bone from a sabre-toothed cat has been dredged up from the seabed by a trawler off the UK coast.

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Bush 'seeks to ease wildlife law'

US environmentalists accuse President Bush of trying to rush through changes to the Endangered Species Act.

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Oldest nuclear family 'murdered'

A 4,600 year-old family group discovered in south east Germany suffered a violent death, experts find.

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Rare penguin took over from rival

Human arrival in New Zealand led to the extinction of one penguin species to the advantage of another, scientists suggest.

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Sparrow numbers 'plummet by 68%'

The loss of green spaces in Britain has caused the number of house sparrows to drop sharply in the past 30 years.

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New friends

Why environmental groups are as relevant as ever

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Ancient turtle discovered on Skye

The earliest turtles to live in water have been discovered on - and named after - the Scottish island of Skye.

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EU agrees cod stocks rescue plans

European fisheries ministers agree a plan aimed at increasing dwindling cod stocks, including better nets and new quotas.

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Japan licences whalemeat import

The Japanese government issues a licence for importation of a consignment of whalemeat from Iceland and Norway.

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Technology to eradicate malaria

Emerging technologies could boost supplies of essential plant-based drugs to combat and ultimately help eradicate malaria, says a report.

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Tech that trumps traffic tangles

The location data of satellite navigation systems looks set to improve traffic monitoring and town planning.

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Hadron Collider repairs cost £14m

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will cost almost £14m ($21m) to repair and hopefully be back up and running for June 2009.

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Limb power

Microscopic needles point to new forms of artificial limb

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Windpipe transplant breakthrough

Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.

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Bird's eye view

Darwin's pigeons, a lost warbler and the smelly seabirds

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Recipe for rescuing our reefs

The colourful world of coral reefs is under threat as oceans absorb greater quantities of carbon, but not all hope is lost.

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