11.28.2015

VIDEO: What came as Bristol & # 039; Capital Green & # 039;?

"Solar Tree" in Millennium Square, Bristol
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What has that Europe Bristol "green capital" is realized?

November 26, 2015 Last updated at 10:37 GMT

Climate change is one of the biggest threats to the world today and next week in Paris is organizing a major international conference on climate change.

Closer to home, Bristol has served as 2,015 European "Green Capital" and will play a key role in the summit in order to reveal what cities can do to combat climate change.

BBC Breakfast John Maguire visited Bristol to see how he accepted the challenge.

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VIDEO: used to control food waste gases Drone

The dump truck
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To monitor experimental drone for landfill gas

November 26, 2015 Last updated at 19:50 GMT Clock

An experimental unmanned aircraft with sensors used to feature the increase in landfill gas.

The drone is more than 200 landfills tested in the UK to study a major source of emissions in the UK.

The current estimate is that junk food produces 21 million tons of greenhouse gases in the UK every year.

David Shukman reported.

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11.27.2015

VIDEO: What came as Bristol & # 039; Capital Green & # 039;

"Solar Tree" in Millennium Square, Bristol
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What has that Europe Bristol "green capital" is realized?

November 26, 2015 Last updated at 10:37 GMT

Climate change is one of the biggest threats to the world today and next week in Paris is organizing a major international conference on climate change.

Closer to home, Bristol has served as 2,015 European "Green Capital" and will play a key role in the summit in order to reveal what cities can do to combat climate change.

BBC Breakfast John Maguire visited Bristol to see how he accepted the challenge.

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11.26.2015

Missing waves; Hunting Einstein & # 039: VIDEO

Print Artist gravitational waves
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The search for gravitational waves Einstein missing

November 25, 2015 Last updated at 10:22 GMT

It's been 100 years that Albert Einstein presented his theory of general relativity, one of the pillars of modern physics, which transformed our understanding of space, time and gravity.

Most of the predictions he made in 1915, subsequently confirmed. But it remains difficult to grasp - the direct detection of gravitational waves.

Now all over the world are trying a number of observatories, to get a look at these phenomena for the first time.

BBC science correspondent Rebecca Morelle went to one of the slot machines shafts - Advanced Virgo, near Pisa, Italy.

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VIDEO: & # 039; Lead shot is poison for hunters & # 039;

Danish Hunters (c) BBC
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Hunter, the campaign against lead shot

November 26, 2015 Last updated at 00:05 GMT Clock

More than 100,000 waterfowl every year from lead poisoning ammunition in the UK are launched killed, according to a report released Thursday.

In Denmark, the use of lead shot is illegal since 1996, creating a level of 20 years of legislation that would urge some environmentalists in Britain. Danish biologist and hunter Niels Kanstrup believes that the prohibition of advantage for hunting and for the environment.

Here he tells the BBC why the hunting and conservation go hand in hand.

Video journalist Victoria Gill

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VIDEO: natural wonders leak Switzerland

Rhone Glacier, Switzerland
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Cop21: Rhonegletscher film shows drone ice retreat

November 26, 2015 Last updated at 00:07 GMT Clock

Diplomats and climate experts will meet in Paris for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, the order seeking a new global agreement to limit emissions of carbon dioxide.

For many of us the effects of climate change can often seem distant and difficult to visualize - but that is far from the case in Switzerland.

It was performed in temperature over the past 150 years to a rapid acceleration of melting glaciers in the country, an increase 2C.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise according to current trends, all large masses of ice in the Swiss Alps to disappear almost until the end of the century, scientists warn.

BBC reporter Howard Johnson video was the Rhone glacier, which fell from 30 m last year.

He met with Dr. David Volken glaciologist who highlighted the retreat of the ice - and why would sit and watch the world.

The basic facts about climate change?

Special Report: Climate Change

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11.25.2015

VIDEO: A brief history of climate negotiations

Jungfraujoch research station
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Cop21 Primer: A brief history of climate negotiations

November 24, 2015 Last updated at 11:20 GMT

Next week, representatives from 195 countries come to Paris to take on a major UN climate summit.

Results of previous sessions ranged promise frankly disappointing, ended without agreement, and in some cases bitterness.

But there are high hopes that it will be different.

Reported the BBC Newsnight correspondent Rebecca Morelle Science is the story so far.

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VIDEO:; s & # 039; Gadget Man & # 039 & # 039 Grade;

Man gadget
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The inventor, which helps birds

November 25, 2015 Last updated at 00:03 GMT Clock

Nigel Butcher is sometimes called the "gadget man" RSPB.

He leads a small team to build the electronic device to help scientists, conservation charity, to collect data in the field.

Working with a budget of only £ 5,000 per year is Nigel to reorient a lot of work to everyday objects.

BBC News went to meet him in his studio.

Reporter Video: Nick Cunard

More video capabilities of the Journal of BBC News.

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Test Flight # 039 ;: & VIDEO reusable spacecraft & # 039;

Shepard reached new country
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New Shepard: Test flight for reusable spacecraft '

November 24, 2015 Updated 22:37 GMT

The contractor of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, claiming success in the second leg the New Shepard spacecraft.

To transport people just above the atmosphere, the reusable vehicle from western Texas on Monday launched aboard an end.

Both parts of the New Shepard - the capsule and drive unit - landed safely, the company Mr. Bezos said, as it released images of the plane.

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11.24.2015

VIDEO: IVF & # 039; best option & # 039; save the white rhino

Nola white rhinos in their enclosure at San Diego Zoo Safari Park
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"The best option" to save the population of white rhinos IVF

November 23, 2015 Last updated at 12:15 GMT

The CEO of Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, Richard Vigne, told the BBC that in vitro fertilization (IVF) is the best option to save the white rhino in the North.

Only three northern white rhinos left in the world, by Nola, a woman aged 41, was found on Sunday after his condition deteriorated after surgery.

She lived in the San Diego Zoo Safari Park since 1989, but the remaining three rhinos are stored closely monitored in Ol Pejeta Conservancy.

Videos courtesy San Diego Zoo.

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VIDEO: How to use your phone with the mud

Clay oven and the thermoelectric generator
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How do you charge your phone with a clay oven

November 24, 2015 Last updated at 0.16 clock GMT

Small producers who use heat to produce electricity increased in parts of Malawi, where only 10% of the population piloted access to electricity.

The device - called a thermoelectric generator - joins a clay oven that people collect a torch, phone or radio while your food is cooked.

The project is funded by the British and Irish Aid.

For more information on this and other similar projects to hear climate change on BBC Radio. 4

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11.23.2015

VIDEO: British astronaut ISS game Blast Off

Tim Peake and crew
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Fully trained astronaut Tim Peake before space travel

November 23, 2015 Last updated at 00:07 GMT Clock

British astronaut Tim Peake and his team-mates have completed their intensive training for his flight to the International Space Station in December.

The crew spent their last, practice exam and will fly shortly to the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan.

Peake, a former test pilot will make his first trip into space and offers a range of scientific experiments on board the ISS, in orbit 250 miles (400 km) of land.

Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford went to him and the rest of the crew in the Russian training center as Star City meet known.

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11.20.2015

VIDEO: Tasmanian devil wild reintroduced

A healthy Tasmanian Devil
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Tasmanian devils: disease free wild animals transported

November 19, 2015 Last updated at 08:50 GMT Clock

A group of Tasmanian devils is introduced into the wild in Tasmania again, as part of a plan to save the carnivorous marsupials cancer threatens them with extinction.

Devil facial tumor caused the population to fall to about 10,000 prior to 1996, from about 250,000 when the disease was discovered.

A group of 22 creatures were the Devil Ark, a center for breeding and disease-free Tops Barrington, transported in the vicinity of Sydney, Tasmania

Diablo Ark Project Manager Mike Drinkwater, explains how the disease is prevalent.

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Born Endangered pygmy hippo at the zoo: VIDEO

Baby pygmy hippo
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Endangered Pygmy hippo at Bristol Zoo born

November 20, 2015 Updated 08:46 GMT

A Pygmy hippo at Bristol Zoo was born. The calf, which has not been called or sexual arrived there almost three weeks.

The pygmy hippo is assumed in the wilderness, where it is threatened that less than 2,000 survive.

Lynsey Bugg, assistant curator of mammals at the zoo, said: "The calf is very strong and certainly eating well in research."

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Video: video capture Songbird Quick-Step

Red-cheeked Cordon Bleu
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High-speed video capture Songbird Quick-Step

November 19, 2015 Updated 17:13 GMT

The use of video cameras at high speed, Japanese and German researchers have discovered out a "tap dance" of songbirds cordon bleu.

The rapid intensification is part of an exhibit of pumps and sing the court, of the two men and women, but as fast pirouettes birds is invisible to the naked eye.

The research is published in the open access journal Scientific Reports.

Files Nao Ota, Hokkaido University

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11.12.2015

VIDEO: The use of lasers to save history

Laser scanning Brandenburg Gate
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Save Using laser scanning for World Heritage

November 11, 2015 Updated 01:28 GMT

CyArk is a nonprofit organization that seeks to preserve digital 500 most important cultural sites in the world organization in five years.

More than 90 projects, including the Brandenburg Gate in Germany and the ziggurat of Ur in Iraq have already been made.

The sides are covered with detection technologies reality as 3D laser scanning, photogrammetry and traditional collection.

Click BBC said Ulrich Plechschmidt Seagate Technology in the project.

More about BBC.com/Click etBBCClick.

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11.10.2015

VIDEO: SeaWorld bow to the pressure of Conservation

Visitors are greeted by an Orca whale
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California SeaWorld bow to the pressure of Conservation

November 10, 2015 Last updated at 09:01 GMT

Is planning a theme of world-famous zoo, to eliminate its killer whale show, after years of militant pressure.

SeaWorld has seen a decline in visitors in eleven facilities in the United States.

The company says it is now are the Orca is a nature experience of California in the year 2017th

James Cook reported.

Courtesy extracted film Magnolia Pictures

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11.07.2015

VIDEO: Timelapse: the huge storm rolls in Sydney

Lapse movie shows cloud platform roll Sydney
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Lapse movie shows cloud platform roll Sydney

November 6, 2015 Last updated at 09:31 GMT Clock

Timelapse images emerged, which removes a large truck in Australian mainland from the sea.

Storm clouds were seen in Eastern Suburbs beaches of the city.

Courtesy Sara Estela

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11.06.2015

VIDEO: Steve Silberman: & # 039; Revolutionaries & # 039; Author

Steve Silberman
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Science journalist Steve Silberman in his book about autism

November 6, 2015 Last updated at 00:02 GMT Clock

To meet the author of this week, Nick Higham meets the winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, awarded on Monday.

It is a science journalist Steve Silberman, author of Neuro Tribes: Legacy, think of autism and how intelligent people who think differently.

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VIDEO: Sun comes to life in high-definition images

NASA image of the Sun
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Sun comes to life in high-definition images

November 5, 2015 Last updated at 11:50 GMT

Exceptional high-definition images of the Sun taken by the Space Telescope NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) released.

The telescope has a high resolution image of the sun every 12 seconds in ten wavelengths of UV invisible light wavelength taken each a different temperature and associated with a color.

The images were collected and presented several active regions of the sun, are usually the source of solar storms.

This video was published by the original movie by NASA accelerates

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VIDEO: How to train astronauts for space missions

Training for underwater space
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How to train astronauts for space missions

November 6, 2015 Last updated at 08:00 GMT Clock

History will be made in December, when Tim Peake was the first official, supported by the government to go the British astronaut on the International Space Station.

Pallab Ghosh had exclusive access to training.

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11.05.2015

VIDEO: What brings you goldfinches in the gardens?

Goldfinch in the Garden (c) Victoria Gill
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What leads goldfinches British gardens?

November 4, 2015 at 00:24 GMT last updated

The British Trust for Ornithology please to help volunteers to find them, which is behind a huge boost in the population goldfinches in the UK.

The number of birds has increased by almost 80% in the last twenty years, and the researchers concluded that the public join in a national survey to find out what helps them thrive in our gardens.

To participate in the survey Volunteers should monitor their garden for two minutes and count how many goldfinches come and what, if any, then feed them.

Video of Victoria Gill made

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11.03.2015

VIDEO: Ten whales stranded in Calais

Beached whales, one that is pulled by a shovel
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Ten pilot whales stranded on the beach in Calais

November 2, 2015 Last updated at 21:44 GMT Clock

Ten long-finned pilot whales stranded on a beach found in Calais.

Three were rescued and returned to the sea, but killed six whales before the arrival of the authorities and died trying to save him.

Jacky Karpouzopoulos, president of the co-ordination of marine mammals in northern France, said he believed that whales could be a family.

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VIDEO: Hadfield: & # 039; Life on board the ISS is like magic & # 039;

Chris Hadfield
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Chris Hadfield: "The life of the ISS is like magic"

November 2, 2015 Updated 23.33 clock GMT

The International Space Station is the size of a football field, and revolves around the Earth every 90 minutes at a distance of 250 miles.

On Monday marks the current occupation 15 years men and women, life on board.

On this occasion, the BBC spoke to one of its most famous former resident, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, life on the station.

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VIDEO: ISS: 15 years in orbit around the Earth

The International Space Station
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ISS: 15 years in orbit around the Earth

November 2, 2015 Last updated at 21:52 GMT Clock

For 15 years, the International Space Station is to be in orbit around the Earth with a human crew.

With a speed of five miles per second, it is expected in the microgravity laboratory that continue its work for another ten years.

Photo courtesy of NASA

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