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Farmers are using far greater amounts of untreated waste water on crops, posing risks to public health.

Environmental legal group ClientEarth says minsters failed to conduct their recent public consultation on clean air properly.

The new research funding body sets out its vision for the future amid the changing world of science.

Researchers unlock the chemistry of Roman concrete which has resisted the elements for thousands of years.

Researchers have described new fossils belonging to an extinct crocodile-like creature that had a set of serrated teeth like those of a T. rex.

The new head of UK research has said that he won't centrally direct scientific research.

The huge diversity of frogs we see today is mainly a consequence of the asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs, a study suggests.

The brain's wiring as never seen before.

About 20 per cent of male fish in UK rivers are now showing female characteristics.

After President Trump withdrew from a climate agreement, Prof Hawking warns of the threat from global warming.

Stephen Hawking warns over Donald Trump's climate policy in a BBC interview marking his 75th birthday.

A powerful rocket, the Long March-5 Y2, failed an hour after lift-off from Hainan island.

Ministers say ending the arrangement will help the UK take back control of access to its waters.

Japanese underwater photographer Ryo Minemizu has photographed the plentiful but often ignored residents of the ocean.

The Mexican government is to use US Navy-trained dolphins to locate and herd endangered vaquitas.

Wild mallard ducks have been spotted hunting and eating migratory birds to the surprise of scientists.

Searing weather across the UK and Europe was made more likely by human-induced climate warming say scientists.

Bees are dying out in winter because of the pesticides used to protect crops.

The largest study to-date on neonicotinoid pesticides concludes they harm honeybees and wild bees.

The UK's biggest space company takes the next step in its project to boost wi-fi in planes over Europe.

For the first time, urban bats are being monitored in real time using smart sensors at a London park.

Household energy bills and carbon emissions will rise unless ministers devise new policies to save power, a report says.

A team of German designers has reinvented the tree to clean up urban air pollution. Using the natural power of moss, they hope to make city air safer to breathe.

The UK's favourite yellow submarine completes its first major science expedition in the Antarctic.

There are just four breeding pairs of the iconic bird of prey left in England.

Journalist Angela Saini argues that it's easy for prejudice to affect scientific research.

The government pledges to pay its "fair share" towards an EU backed nuclear project after Brexit.

Amy Dickman has had some close shaves with big cats and humans while working with cheetahs and lions.

African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina wins the prestigious World Food Prize for his work to boost yields and farm incomes.

The greater strength of chimpanzees, relative to humans, may have been explained by American scientists.

A new study is looking at the impact of sleep on your brain power.

The US rocket company makes two launches in just over 24 hours.

Meng Meng and Jiao Qing arrive in Germany from China ahead of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The Yellowstone grizzlies are about to be taken off the endangered species list - after they were first added more than 40 years ago.

Zola has been cooling off in his favourite blue swimming pool at Dallas Zoo.

Wild chimpanzees have changed their hunting strategies in response to being watched and followed by scientists, observations suggest.

Two chimp 'tribes' have developed different hunting habits in response to human presence.

Kazakhstan's Expo 2017 provides a taste of what could be the future of greener and renewable energy.

The tiny satellite was designed by Rifath Sharrook, 18, and manufactured using a 3-D printer.

The shrinking size of whales over the 20th Century could help scientists detect when wildlife populations are in trouble, a study suggests.

OHB and SSTL will make the next eight, possibly even the next 14, satellites for Europe's GPS.

The conservation group WWF is warning that koalas could be wiped out in some Australian states amid deforestation and increasing attacks by livestock.

Could an effort to gather genetic data from its population of one billion people help India take the lead in advanced healthcare?

The obscure and difficult to reach tracts of the seabed being claimed in the hope they contain mineral riches.

A government plan to protect the UK's £13.7bn space industry has been laid out in the Queen's Speech.

Scientists crack the problem of why two-wheeled suitcases can rock from side-to-side and turn over.

Prof Stephen Hawking has called for leading nations to send astronauts to the Moon by the end of this decade.

After decades in the planning, a space mission to detect gravitational waves finally gets the go-ahead.

A million-year-long period of volcanic activity led to the rise of the dinosaurs, a study suggests.

The domestic cat is descended from wild cats that were tamed twice - in the Near East and then Egypt.