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The solar farm will generate enough electricity for about 2,500 homes, its backers said.

As pub chain Wetherspoons phases out plastic straws for waste reasons, is it time we scrapped them?

The world's botanic gardens contain a third of all known plants and help protect 40% of endangered ones.

Australia is to be a launch partner on the UK's innovative new small radar satellite, NovaSAR.

US firm Planet Labs makes satellites you could hold in your hands, and has more in orbit than anyone else.

Despite signs that numbers of giant pandas are rising, suitable habitat has shrunk, satellite data shows.

The country is one of the few major developed nations not to have a dedicated agency.

Mount Agung on Bali is an active volcano that may be about to erupt for the first time in 54 years.

Scottish Power says electric cars and a shift to electric heating could mean a big rise in demand for electricity.

Judges has to choose between 3,800 entries from all over the world.

Some flies see six times faster than us, catching prey in mid-air in less than a second.

Alexander Blanco's conservation work is helping to save the world's most powerful eagle.

The near-6,000 sq km block of ice known as A-68 looks finally to be on the move.

It will enter clinical trials to prevent and treat the infection next year.

A new study shows that Neanderthal brains developed more slowly than ours.

The call of storm petrels are recorded for the first time on islands where rats came ashore from shipwrecks.

Why firms are spending millions to beat each other into orbit

The fast-growing US solar industry is at odds with itself - and the decision may be left to Trump.

Sir David Attenborough spoke to the BBC about Zoo Quest, the environment and the planet's future.

DNA from ancient remains is used to reconstruct thousands of years of population history in Africa.

The idea of plant-eating dinosaurs having a strict vegetarian diet is called into question.

The small satellite industry is the fastest growing part of the space sector "and they all require launch" says Rocket Lab boss Peter Beck.

Evolutionary biologist Matthew Cobb unpicks a lecture that, sixty years ago, set the course for the genetic revolution.

The people of the Guna Yala archipelago, off the Panama coast, may be among the first island communities to leave their homes and move onshore.

In this photo essay, photographer Clayton Conn shares his experience of the Mexico City earthquake.

The UK and US reach an agreement that aims to allow freer movement of research equipment and scientists.

Understanding the first moments of life could lead to better IVF and explain why women miscarry.

Barn owls keep their acute sense of hearing into old age, scientists have discovered.

Rivalries in Orkney more than 4,500 years ago led to competition between communities, according to new research.

The ambitious goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is still within reach, a study indicates.

The biggest and the smallest of the world's fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles are most at risk of dying out.

Volunteers came to the aid of a seal after its neck was trapped within a plastic flying ring.

Meet Dr Matt Zeale who is leading a team of conservationists tracking the rare barbastrelle bat.

Rhino horn is being processed into bangles, beads and bracelets, a charity's investigation reveals.

Reports say the US will no longer withdraw from the Paris deal or will change its approach.

How tiny creatures with small brains outwit us so easily.

She survived a 16km (10-mile) car journey, clinging to the axle of a four-wheel drive near Adelaide.

A happy ending for a family of hippos.

The chief scientists who worked on the spacecraft react after it plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere.

The US-led Cassini space probe reaches a spectacular climax, burning up in Saturn's atmosphere.

Cassini's about to crash into Saturn, but here's what it's achieved over the last two decades.

Scientists explain how they discovered a water ocean beneath the ice shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

The conservation status of the elusive snow leopard is downgraded from "endangered" to "vulnerable".

It took seven years for the US-European mission to get to the ringed planet, launching in 1997.

David Malin has spent four decades photographing space. Now retired, he has held a competition to inspire other astrophotographers.

The Saturn probe takes some final images ahead of its mission-ending dive into the ringed planet.

Science is laying bare the secrets of orchids, one of the biggest families of flowering plant.

Queen's University scientists design a flexible long-life battery that could be used in pacemakers.

Berries are appearing early this year - and promise to last much longer than usual, according to experts.

Emergency crews have begun an oil spill clean-up after an oil tanker sank close to the island of Salamis.