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Past mass extinctions have the potential to guide modern conservation efforts, say scientists.

A team of British scientists flies around Iceland's volcanoes to find out how to avoid future air traffic disruption.

We continue to buy new clothes at an incredible rate. How can manufacturers reduce fashion's environmental footprint?

The sighting in North Ronaldsay is believed to be the first time an adult male Siberian blue robin has been seen in the UK.

Black carbon trapped in the feathers of songbirds gives new insight into historic US air quality.

Key modifications for flight happened as early as 120 million years ago, a fossil discovery suggests.

UK scientists will take a ship to explore waters exposed by a huge new iceberg in the Antarctic.

Almost two thirds of mussels in the sea around Kent are contaminated with plastic particles, research has shown.

Teams from around the world are competing on solar cars in an epic transcontinental race.

A conservation project in Papua New Guinea could help secure the future for Britain's biggest butterfly.

RSPB Minsmere has about 200 red deer, one of the largest wild herds outside Scotland.

The Canadian zoo releases a compilation video of their giant panda cubs falling and tumbling.

Weather scientists first mistook the radar pattern to be birds, and turned to social media for help.

Conservation groups welcome government proposals for a full-scale ban on sales and exports.

The SS Thistlegorm, a British merchant steam ship, was hit by a German bomber in 1941.

The US vice-president expresses the intention for America to send humans back to the lunar surface.

A new study finds traces of neonicotinoid chemicals in 75% of honey samples from across the world.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday but where do the prizes come from?

The 2017 Nobel prizes for the sciences have all been announced, but many in the scientific community are pointing out the lack of female laureates.

New figures show the UK government failed to reduce illegal levels of air pollution in the 18 months after a court ordered it to clean up the air.

A major conference examines how to limit the more damaging impacts of intensive farming systems.

The remains of a passenger liner torpedoed by a U-boat just hours into the war may have been found.

For the Soviet Union, the launch of the satellite was a triumph not just for science. but socialism.

Meet Mochi from South Dakota, who has just bagged herself a Guinness World Record.

The Nobel prize in chemistry is awarded to three scientists for advances in the imaging of biological molecules

How a British observatory played a crucial part in the Cold War.

Pheasants are the bird species most likely to be run over on UK roads, according to new research.

They may not be household names, but, according to experts, they pose risks to the environment.

The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists for the detection of gravitational waves.

The fossil of a marine reptile from 199 million years ago gives clues to the diet of baby reptiles.

Only one of four groups of Beavers in Argyll is showing signs of successful breeding.

Michael Gove wants views on whether a "reward and return" system would improve recycling in England.

Understanding how our bodies keep time has "vast implications" for health, say Nobel committee.

The UK's hardiest snow patch melts for what is thought to be only the seventh time in 300 years.

Suzie Imber, who beat 11 people to the prize, is "excited" she could "one day end up in space".

More than 100,000 people have fled their homes as they wait for Bali's Mount Agung to erupt.

The British-led project to build a 1,000mph car reaches a key milestone in its development.

New Zealand's forest used to be home to millions of kiwi. Now there are only 68,000 left.

The entrepreneur says his new rocket could fly people from London to New York in 29 minutes.

Creator of ChemStart, Bathabile Mpofu, takes hands-on scientific experiments into schools in South Africa.

Hundreds of Japanese species have been found on US coasts, swept there by the deadly 2011 tsunami.

The process begins of scoping new spacecraft for the Sentinel Earth observation network.

A team in Bangalore has entered the Google Lunar X Prize to land a rover on the Moon.

Sir Paul Nurse says this kind of technique could be done in the UK.

A major citizen science project will spread virtual flu with the aim of understanding how to stop the real thing.

Four times larger than regular rodents, a large, tree-dwelling rat has been found in the Pacific.

A Chinese team corrected the potentially fatal blood disorder beta-thalassemia.

Conservationists push the UK to make its remote South Sandwich Islands a protected sanctuary.

Ripples in the fabric of space-time are sensed again - this time using three different laser systems.

The BBC is going under the waves with David Attenborough in a second series of Blue Planet, which was first shown in 2001.