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In a bid to limit ocean pollution, the government will introduce new controls on plastic next year.

People with lung conditions describe the impact air pollution has on their health.

Under the new law, people can choose to have their body turned into soil after their death.

Researchers say it shows driverless cars working together could improve traffic flow by at least 35%.

Colombian farmers are piloting a way of raising cows that's better for the environment.

Researchers say sea levels may rise by 2m by the end of this century, double current predictions.

Marine biologist and diver David Ainsley is concerned about the effect fish farms have on marine life.

Those inside the containers have enough food and water to last them for a week, it is claimed.

Wasps are seen as 'bothersome and pointless' and not given the attention they deserve - researchers.

The idea that you cannot kill any animal is "fatally flawed" as a conservation concept, scientists argue.

The blood-sucking parasites have been around for at least 115 million years, according to a recent study.

Europe prepares to send technology to Mars to look for evidence that there is life on the planet.

France released two brown bears in the Pyrenees - but one has now killed eight sheep in Spain.

A mining dam could collapse as early as next week, months after a similar disaster killed 230 people.

A single mother almost missed out on a coveted Nasa internship until strangers stepped in to help.

India's political parties promise free electricity to farmers and ambitious infrastructure projects.

A London food chain is now including insects on its menu but can eating insects help save the planet?

The much-maligned bedbug has been around for 115 million years - since dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

UK scientists have created an artificial version of the stomach bug E. coli that is based on an entirely synthetic form of DNA.

Up to a million shoes are among the tide of plastic debris washed up on an Australian island say scientists.

Almost a quarter of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is now unstable, according to a new study.

The document stumped Alan Turing and the FBI before being "deciphered" by a research assistant.

The bites are a "hidden" health crisis causing a death every four minutes, says World Health Organization

Bafta called for more environment plot lines on TV, here's a look at how television can raise awareness.

The Chinese Chang'e-4 rover may have confirmed a longstanding idea about the origin of a vast crater on the Moon's far side.

Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots and fungi, connecting trees and plants to one another.

A disease posing a "very serious threat" to the EU's olive industry still poses a real threat to southern European producers, say experts.

New research by Bafta found references to "climate change" lag far behind "beer" or "sex" in UK TV shows.

How is this man growing vegetables in the most northerly major human settlement on Earth.

The boss of Skanska tells 5 Live that companies only calculate carbon emissions.

Jakobshavn Isbrae - the likely originator of the Titanic iceberg - goes into an unexpected quiet mode.

Conservationists hope the results will help them understand how butterflies survive in a warming climate.

A petition signed by 350,000 people calls for "netting" of trees and hedges to be a criminal offence.

An American explorer finds plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.

Europe's Aeolus spacecraft is gathering fantastic new data on global winds - but it's also got a problem.

Victor Vescovo descended almost 11km in a submersible to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.

The Faroe Islands declared themselves shut down as foreign volunteers came to take part in sustainable tourism.

The Apollo 11 landing: What did it take to pull off one of the greatest achievements in human history?

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges world leaders to follow science advice on climate change.

Officials in north-east India guided an elephant calf to safety, after it became separated from its mother.

The UK may need to review expansion of aviation to meet CO2 targets, the government admits.

Engineers are making sure their joint European-Russian rover will perform as expected on the Red Planet.

The killings wipe out half the vulture population in the Israeli-occupied territory.

The procedure is a world-first amid efforts to save the species, native to New Zealand.

Europeans are emitting too much carbon and using too much food and timber, a report says.

Blue Origins claims that the lunar lander will be able to take humans to the Moon's south pole by 2024.

Climate change is having an impact on British wildlife, say scientists mapping a deadly frog disease.

Researchers plan for new centre to explore refreezing the poles, sucking out CO2 and ocean greening.

The Amazon is at risk from mining in French Guiana and it is the French Foreign Legion's job to protect it.