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The government announces new recycling rules but critics say the system is "fundamentally broken".

Britain's lush, humid woodlands are home to weird and wonderful lichens not found anywhere else on Earth.

Fishing communities on this Indonesian island are locked in a battle with the government over land.

A fall in the number of avian influenza outbreaks is welcomed by the UK's Christmas turkey farmers.

The company released untreated sewage at dozens of sites, including near a bottlenose dolphin habitat.

The climate activist is part of a Fossil Free London protest at JP Morgan's Canary Wharf office.

The country's space goals also include include plans for a space station by 2035.

The government needs to expand subsidies for heat pumps, say its independent advisers on infrastructure.

A group of leading scientists have said the current levels of PFAS could be damaging to human health.

There are now 555 air quality monitors across the country, but some say they aren't good enough.

The annular solar eclipse crossed North, Central, and South America on Saturday.

Simon Armitage says poets can convey climate change in a way that scientists and journalists can't.

The JET laboratory, the focus of European fusion experiments for decades, carries out its last test.

The UK's climate advisers say recent changes to net zero policies make it harder to meet climate goals.

Health and animal welfare campaigners say the overuse of antibiotics by UK farmers should be banned.

Study shows quality and quantity of hops - a crucial ingredient - are falling with hotter weather.

Scientists believe the species' last stronghold is just four miles from Cardiff.

Winners of the Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year have been revealed.

The O2 Arena are trailing carbon removed gigs - will they become more common across the industry?

Researchers have developed gene-edited chickens that are partially resistant to bird flu.

Almost half the world's known flowering plants could be threatened by extinction, scientists warn.

James Milward went high tech in his quest to stop the animals fouling in his Surrey garden.

The BBC finds that there have been a record number of days in 2023 that breached the 1.5C temperature limit.

Art meets science as Prada designers help create the spacesuits for the 2025 Moon mission.

This year is on track to be the warmest on record after September temperatures alarm scientists.

A selection of finalists in this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023.

His bodyweight has risen nearly 7,000%, but does "806 Jr" have what it takes to win Fat Bear Week?

The nanoparticles create more precise colours and are used in TV screens as well as medical imaging.

The nation has reeled from disaster to disaster in recent years, as it feels the effects of climate change.

Dish Network will have to pay $150,000 for failing to move an old satellite far enough away from the Earth.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics rewards research into electrons in "flashes of light".

Companies in England and Wales want to charge up to 84 a year more in 2025, rising to 156 extra by 2030.

The new space observatory sees pairs of Jupiter-sized objects floating free between the stars.

Experts are optimistic of detecting life signs on a faraway world within our lifetimes - possibly in the next few years.

Plastic cutlery is banned in England from Sunday but plastic containers for takeaway meals are not.

Wildfire response across the UK is an under-resourced "postcode lottery", claims a new union report.

The loss of Britain's wildlife is outpacing efforts to conserve and protect nature, a major report reveals.

The elusive substance holds the key to discovering how the Universe was formed.

They claim governments' slow action on climate change violates their human rights.

Environmentalists say delaying the implementation of new biodiversity rules is "a hammer blow for nature".

Regulator Ofwat orders companies in England and Wales to cut bills after missing targets.

The former Labour PM wants the wealthiest oil producers to help poorer nations tackle climate change.

A capsule carrying debris from asteroid Bennu lands safely in the Utah desert.

It secured a deal to control a fifth of Cambodia's coastline - 15 years on, it has barely got started.

With bee populations struggling, mechanical pollination may be increasingly needed as a back-up.

Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday guest Yanis Varoufakis attacked the PM's 'incompetence and cynicism'.

They live on flood-plains contaminated by potentially harmful levels of toxic waste, research reveals.

A handful of dust from an asteroid streaming through space could tell Nasa how life on Earth began.

The prime minister claims the changes will support "hard-pressed families" but opponents accuse him of "selling out".

A Lords committee warns that the government risks missing housebuilding and environmental targets.