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The industry is blamed for damaging the environment, fuelling climate change and polluting water.

Water shortages mean the laundry industry is adopting various technologies to reduce consumption.

Children's drawings of nightmarish scenarios illustrate climate change's impact in the Mekong Delta.

Sir David Attenborough on Love Island, Global Warming, population growth and meat eating.

Astronomers have announced the possible discovery of the first known moon outside our Solar System.

Zoos can help save animals not just cage them, says veteran wildlife photographer Joel Sartore.

Professor Donna Strickland has become the first woman in 55 years to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Four pioneering women who changed the face of physics from the 1800s to the present day.

Japan's space agency (Jaxa) successfully despatches a German-led lander to the surface of an asteroid.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries in enzyme research.

IPCC scientist says there are some positive signs about our ability to keep the global temperature rise to 1.5C

Elina Berg is a member of a campaign group which is suing the Norwegian government over oil exploration in the Arctic.

Scientists are developing technology to help.

Scientists are investigating why around 70 deep water whales have washed up on Scottish and Irish beaches since the beginning of August.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to a woman for only the third time since the award began.

1.5C has become the new "safe" upper-limit for global warming - but whatever happened to the two-degree target?

One Indonesian inventor has found a unique solution to the problem of plastic food packaging.

Prof Alessandro Strumia, of Pisa University, had said "physics was invented and built by men".

Researchers are trying to establish why Friday's quake generated such big waves.

Cern removes "highly offensive" slides from website from a talk on women in particle physics

Not everyone is happy with a missing detail in a new film about the 1969 Moon landing.

Scientists discuss a report aimed at keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C this century.

An antelope caught on camera in Uganda for the first time sheds light on an unexplored rainforest.

Volunteers are urged to make a weekly record of the Tawny owl's distinctive hoot, as numbers fall.

Orcas are in deep trouble because of persistent chemical pollution in the environment, researchers say.

Traditional remedies used by gardeners to deter slugs and snails appear to have no scientific merit.

Chemical pollution threatens the long-term viability of the most exposed orca groups.

HS2 is going to be built through these bats' habitat.

Japan has released new images from the robot rovers it has deployed to the surface of an asteroid.

It connects 17 national parks and runs for 2,800km (1,740 miles) through sparsely populated land.

The profile of Arctic shrubs and grasses is changing as temperatures rise in the far north.

Businesses in India may have found a way to turn plastic rubbish into a golden business opportunity.

Bombs dropped in World War II were so strong they were felt in the Earth's upper atmosphere

Concerns over CO2 emissions as development restarts at hundreds of coal-fired power stations in China.

An expert urges more research to confirm a possible link between fruit, veg, nuts and grains and mood.

Europe's workhorse rocket racks up its 100th launch as it battles stiff American competition.

An increasing number of people are choosing the plant-based diet.

The wreckage of a boat that sank 400 years ago is found to contain currency used in the slave trade.

Climate change is killing Antarctic's mosses, hardy plants growing at the bottom of the planet for centuries.

There are many myths and misunderstandings about evolution - how much do you know?

India has big solar ambitions, but could recent policy uncertainties cast a shadow on its plans?

Researchers have used gene editing to completely eliminate populations of mosquitoes in the lab.

The rare copperhead was discovered in a garden in Virginia and is unlikely to survive in the wild.

See what life is like as a medical photographer at a city hospital.

Pictures have emerged from the surface of an asteroid after Japan landed two robotic rovers on it.

A box of archives reveals the story of a pioneering 19th century gardener who blazed a trail for women.

Frank and Veronica Tett have been nursing hedgehogs back to health for the last 30 years.

Erik Solheim is criticised for risking the UN's reputation by extensive use of expensive air travel.

A rare gulper eel is caught on camera displaying its huge pouch-like mouth in Hawaii.

England is recycling more plastic than ever - but for this trend to continue, the system needs to change