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Campaign set up to oppose spaceport in Sutherland
Some crofters have concerns about the impact the site would have on the environment and their rights.
DNA project to decode 'all complex life' on Earth
Scientists set out to read the DNA of 1.5 million species, starting a "new chapter in biology".
Soyuz rocket: 'Faulty sensor' led to launch failure
Russian officials have been looking into why the rocket’s booster malfunctioned during a launch last month.
Coral: Palau to ban sunscreen products to protect reefs
The Pacific island nation becomes the first country to impose a widespread ban on sunscreen products.
Scientists count whales from space
UK scientists demonstrate the practicality of identifying and counting whales from orbit.
Climate change: Oceans 'soaking up more heat than estimated'
The Earth is far more sensitive to fossil fuel emissions than previously thought, a study says.
Big thaw
Melting Arctic sea ice may be about to open up the Northwest Passage to cargo shipping.
Kepler: Nasa's telescope that found new worlds has been retired
Nasa's Kepler telescope, which has been looking for inhabitable worlds, has run out of fuel and will look no more.
Hawaii top court approves controversial Thirty Meter Telescope
Construction had halted in 2015 amid protests from native Hawaiians who consider the land sacred.
World's longest DNA sequence decoded
A team of UK scientists have claimed the record for decoding the world's longest DNA sequence.
WWF report: Mass wildlife loss caused by human consumption
WWF blames "exploding consumption" for average losses of 60% in vertebrate populations since 1970.
RemoveDebris: UK satellite tracks 'space junk'
The British-led mission to test techniques to clear up space junk initiates its second experiment.
Parker Solar Probe: Nasa's Sun mission smashes records
America's audacious mission to "touch the Sun" has now got nearer to our star than any previous human-made object.
Global hunger for soybeans 'destroying Brazil's Cerrado savanna'
Brazil's highly biodiverse Cerrado is being destroyed for soybean production, conservationists say.
Rhino horn: Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts
Experts worry this will increase demand for the animals and jeopardise efforts to protect them.
'Worst year' for Horsey seals injured by rubbish
The animals have been getting fishing nets stuck to them or rings trapped on their necks.
Chocolate: Origins of delicacy pushed back in time
The delights of chocolate were first discovered in the Amazon rainforest about 5,000 years ago.
Brecon project gives water vole a fighting chance
A Powys captive breeding project aims to give water voles a fighting chance of a revival.
Climate change is 'escalator to extinction' for mountain birds
A new study shows that rising temperatures drive the disappearance of mountain-top bird species in Peru.
Climate change: 'Wetlands vital to protect cities'
Urban areas need to cherish wetlands as a natural defence against flooding, experts warn.
Are hydrogen trains the future of UK travel?
Trains that emit pure water could be in the UK by the "early 2020s", according to the government.
Potholes: Why do we have so many of them?
The chancellor says councils in England will get an extra £420m in his Budget to fix potholes.
Oxford-Cambridge Arc: Row over central England mega-plan
The transport secretary says the government will back major development on the Oxford-Cambridge arc.
Climate change: Low cost, low energy cooling system shows promise
"Water cooler moment" as greener cooling idea is scaled up to help chill homes and buildings.
Reality Check
Caroline Lucas MP says that onshore wind energy is the cheapest. What are the figures behind her claim?
HS2 construction: Moving the remains of 40,000 people
Work begins to exhume thousands of skeletons to make way for HS2 construction.
Controversial HS2 burial site dig at London Euston begins
Some 45,000 skeletons are being removed to make way for a new station terminus.
Rising seas will swamp homes, report says
Climate advisors say coastal communities must "get real" about the possibility of 1m sea level rise.
Splosh! How the dinosaur-killing asteroid made Chicxulub crater
When the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth, it made billions of tonnes of rock move like a fluid.
Mum's voice makes better smoke alarm for children
Many more children woke up to a voice-based alarm than a traditional one, a study found.
Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
A new US study says that several low-cost technologies can be deployed right now to limit global warming.
Kurtis Baute: Scientist leaves airtight dome after 15 hours
Kurtis Baute spent 15 hours in an airtight dome to raise awareness about climate change.
Clever crows reveal 'window into the mind'
The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.
Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament
Plastic items such as cutlery and straws would be banned in the EU under plans approved by MEPs.
Tools discarded 6,000 years ago found near Muir of Ord
The harpoon and axes were made from red deer antler by hunter-gatherers in Highlands in the Mesolithic period.
Young couples 'trapped in car dependency'
Planners are allowing edge-of-town housing estates where car travel is only option, researchers say.
Illegally smuggled chimp safely rehomed in Dorset
Naree was illegally smuggled to Thailand and forced to perform in a circus.
Concrete plans
Reducing our use of sand and cement cuts down on CO2 emissions and lessens the impact on the environment.
Nasa 'fixes' Hubble malfunction
Nasa believes it has fixed a malfunction with the Hubble telescope which threatened to limit the orbiting observatory's performance.
Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg
Nasa has released a striking photo of a rectangular iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
Shipwreck found in Black Sea is 'world's oldest intact'
A Greek merchant ship dating back more than 2,400 years is found almost perfectly preserved.
Anti-plastic focus 'dangerous distraction' from climate change
Riverford vegetable box boss says more focus should be on cutting carbon, not demonising plastic.
'Super-sized' mice threaten seabird colonies with extinction
Overgrown mice are killing millions of chicks on the remote Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
Legendary team's 1921 Everest album
Newly digitised pictures shine light on the first British reconnaissance trip to Everest, in 1921.
'Headless chicken sea monster' filmed swimming off East Antarctica
A deep-sea swimming sea cucumber has been filmed in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica for the first time.
Brazil museum fire: Prized 'Luzia' fossil skull recovered
It was feared that Luzia, a 12,000-year-old fossil, had been totally lost in the Brazil fire.
Poralia rufescens jellyfish spotted off coast of California
The Poralia rufescens is swimming off the coast of southern California in the Pacific Ocean.
Blast-off for BepiColombo on mission to Mercury
Europe and Japan celebrate the successful launch of a quest to visit the closest planet to the Sun.
'Fake moon'
The sci-fi plan would use giant mirrors in space to light city streets, but scientists are sceptical.
A14 road workers find woolly mammoth bones
The bones, discovered on the site of an ancient river, are thought to be at least 130,000 years old.
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