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The UK authorities in Cyprus are doubling the number of officers targeting illegal songbird trapping on British military territory.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three British-born scientists for discoveries about strange forms of matter.

Known for its long whip-like tail, the threatened Thresher shark is among a number of marine species given extra protection at the Cites meeting.

Attempts to give the maximum level of international protection to all African elephants have foundered at a key species conference in Johannesburg.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi for discoveries about the secrets of how cells can remain healthy by recycling waste.

An Asian bird species under threat for it's ivory-like "helmet" has gained extra protection at the Cites conference in Johannesburg.

A butterfly struck up an unlikely friendship with a koala joey at Symbio Wildlife Park in New South Wales, Australia, with adorable results.

Delegates at a UN wildlife conference in South Africa endorse calls for the closure of all domestic ivory markets.

Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures a magnificent display of coronal loops above an area with strong magnetic fields.

Seven species of yellow-faced bee native to Hawaii are the first bees to be added to the US list of endangered species.

Arab nations join forces with African countries in a bid to suppress the illegal live trade in cheetahs, with a special focus on social media.

Mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, react to confirmation that the Rosetta probe has ended its mission to Comet 67P by crash-landing on to the icy object's surface.

Professor Monica Grady of the Open University gives her reaction to the Rosetta probe crash landing into the comet it has been studying for two years.

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Europe’s Rosetta probe ends its mission to Comet 67P by crash-landing on to the icy object’s surface.

Officials are awaiting confirmation of the Rosetta probe's collision into a 4km-wide ball of ice and dust.

Campaigners are demanding better safeguards for the UK's marine mammals after the EU said it would take Britain to court over harbour porpoises.

Science editor David Shukman goes on board the plane measuring the jet stream to find out how it affects our weather.

The Rosetta probe, which has been beaming back spectacular pictures of a comet, is to end its journey by crash landing.

A new database suggests a dramatic under-reporting of the live, illegal trade in great apes including orangutans, chimpanzees and gorilllas.

The European Commission takes the UK to court for failure to allocate safe marine areas for harbour porpoises.

A campaign is urging young people to share their thoughts and ideas via social media on the future of the UK's parks and open spaces.

Campaigners call for reform as figures reveal taxpayers are paying more than £400,000 a year to subsidise a Saudi billionaire's farm.

A little known species driven to the edge of extinction by poaching, has gained extra protection at the Cites meeting in South Africa.

Europe's only non-human primate, the Barbary Macaque, has gained the highest level of protection at the Cites meeting in South Africa.

Projected climate change is set to happen too quickly for grass species, including major food crops, to adapt to the new conditions, a study suggests.

Garden ponds are playing a role in the spread of deadly frog diseases across the UK, a study suggests.

British conservationist Sacha Dench is on the first leg of an epic 4,500 mile paramotor flight following migrating swans.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk outlines his vision for establishing a human colony on Mars for people that can afford a $200,000 ticket price.

A blue topaz stone, thought to be the largest-ever, is to go on permanent loan to the Natural History Museum in London.

Scientists have pre-programmed materials to change their shape over time.

The first footage of a rare giant jumping rat born at Chester Zoo is released.

Professor Michele Dougherty explains the importance of the water plumes on Jupiter's moon

Delegates at the Cites meeting in Johannesburg have defeated an attempt to set up a process to resume sales of ivory.

Scientists extract fossil proteins - some of biological tissue's building blocks - in a 3.8 million year-old ostrich eggshell.

Nasa says jets of water spotted spurting from Jupiter's moon, Europa, take them a step closer to finding out if there is life in space.

Further evidence has been obtained to show that Jupiter's icy moon Europa throws jets of water out into space.

Private company SpaceX has carried out its first test of the Raptor rocket engine designed to send humans to Mars.

A "colossal" wasp nest the size of a "barrel" with a 1.4m tunnel attached is found in an attic.

China’s Geely auto group has become the main sponsor behind the British Bloodhound supersonic car project, enabling an assault on the land speed record.

Monday's successful launch of eight satellites into space proves India's commercial space programme is booming, writes Yogita Limaye.

As the Cites conference on endangered species meets in Johannesburg, Matt McGrath travelled to Zambia to hear the voices of people with first-hand experience of conflicts between humans and wildlife.

A conference in South Africa could make the trade in pangolin illegal.

Elephant populations in Africa have declined by around 111,000 over the past ten years according to a new study presented at the Cites meeting in South Africa.

The world's largest radio telescope has received its first signals from space and is now entering an intensive testing phase.

As the population grows over the next 20 years half the world will be left malnourished, an independent panel of experts on food and agriculture warns.

President Barack Obama has created the first underwater national monument off the US east coast, protecting a vast ecosystem of canyons and extinct volcanoes. It is home to thousands of rare species, but is also a source of controversy.

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The world's biggest conference on species protection has opened in South Africa amid differing views on the survival of elephants.