BBC News

BBC Radio 5 Live's Sam Walker looks at which foods are better for the environment.

Eighty per cent of Wales' environmental laws are tied to the EU and must be replaced, charities warn.

A 5,600-year-old skull fragment discovered by Thames amateur archaeologists goes on display.

Wallace Broecker, the scientist who helped popularise the term "global warming", has died at the age 87.

It is still the final frontier, but space travel has come a little closer to the public at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

The Chinese businesswoman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for operating an ivory-smuggling ring.

A mystery disease that is killing beech trees could cause widespread die-offs unless more is done to halt its spread, warn scientists.

Growing meat in the laboratory may damage the climate more in the long run, than meat from cattle.

Clothing brands and retailers should pay per item to fund a £35m annual recycling scheme, MPs say.

Badger baiting: 'Hundreds' illegally killed every season in Northern Ireland

What do these Neath pupils think of plastic waste after a beach clean-up?

X-ray images reveal the inner workings of a variety of different species at ZSL London Zoo.

Campaigners say retailers want fees to apply only to smaller containers, rather than all plastic bottles.

How sustainable are your fashion habits? Take our quiz.

Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.

Scientists have called for a ban on the development of weapons controlled by AI.

Travis Kauffman was hiking in Colorado when he came toe-to-toe with a young mountain lion

Researchers in Edinburgh develop gene-edited farm animals for poor farmers in Africa.

Students have protested across the UK to air their views on the issue of climate change. We talked to some of those in Manchester.

Students in cities around the UK walked out of school to call for action from the government.

Two men carrying at least 24 severed rhino horns have been arrested at Hong Kong airport's customs.

The oil and gas company believes a prohibition on single-use plastic could increase CO2, but is that true?

A British-led mission demonstrates a projectile that could one day be used to clear up space junk.

Across the UK, students are set to take part in a climate strike, but will it make a difference?

A bald eagle had to be rescued after a 20cm ice ball grew on its tail.

The UK and US governments announce a £25m project to improve the sensitivity of the LIGO facilities.

Anglian Water admits ammonia discharge from a recycling unit killed big bream in the River Cam.

The abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone could be about to change for the first time since the world's worst nuclear disaster.

Thick ice and a lost sub bring an end to the search for the famous Antarctic explorer's sunken polar yacht.

Britons are being urged to write a poem, letter or story to celebrate the woodlands of the UK.

It's claimed this is the first time the rare animal has been photographed in Africa in a century.

Greta Thunberg spoke to the BBC in September, but since then she's become a global phenomenon.

The 15-year mission of "Oppy" the robot is declared over after repeated failed attempts to contact it.

The US space agency's InSight mission positions the second of its surface instruments on Mars.

The new species were found after three years of extensive explorations in the Western Ghats.

Conservationists from Chester zoo are conducting the first ever study of the animals, in Uganda.

Scientists release rare footage of the secretive giant pangolin to highlight the scaly mammal's plight.

One small town has become a dumping ground for the world's waste and it's causing a stink.

The winning pictures in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award.

When a Malaysian town was inundated with foreign plastic waste, a group of villagers decided to fight back.

A radical plan to tackle climate change pushed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may now come to the Senate for a vote.

There are now more than 2 million sq miles of extra leaf area per year, compared with the early 2000s.

Two BBC journalists succumbed to the trend and took at-home genealogy tests. This is what they found.

Four Americans are celebrated for their roles in developing the sat-nav Global Positioning System.

Policymakers are not grasping the seriousness of what we’re doing to the planet, a think-tank warns.

The mapping organisation's craft will collect images and data for businesses and organisations to use.

Feral and free-ranging dogs are the third worst human-introduced predators, posing a major threat to wildlife.

Why is a part of Russia in a state of emergency over polar bears?

Houseflies and cockroaches will thrive as bees, butterflies and beetles decline, says a new analysis.

Scientists hope to discover one of the most famous ships in Antarctic exploration history this week.