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Tributes are paid to renowned naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough as he turns 90.

Conservationists have launched a global campaign asking the public to use a smartphone app to help tackle the illegal trade in wildlife.

Scientists say new fossils found in China are of a crocodile-like creature that was the first known plant-eating marine reptile.

The UK's new state-of-the-art polar research ship will be named after Sir David Attenborough, despite the title "Boaty McBoatface" previously topping a public vote.

A quick look at some of the best moments of the beloved broadcaster and naturalist.

The UK's new polar research ship is to be named RRS Sir David Attenborough, despite Boaty McBoatface previously topping a public vote.

US company SpaceX makes another successful landing of a rocket booster after launching a satellite to orbit.

A satellite radar project is under way to assess the geological hazards facing the 400-plus European monuments and sites on the Unesco World Heritage List.

MPs want to examine the process that has been used to find a name for the UK's new polar research ship - a vessel the public wants to call Boaty McBoatface.

The UK's Environment Minister promises action to cut pollution from facial scrubs and body washes.

The El Niño weather phenomenon and ongoing climate change have both contributed to the devastating Alberta wildfires, according to experts.

Scientists in Australia discover how crocodiles' eyes are adapted to lurking at the water surface to watch and wait for prey.

Scientists have developed a technique to grow human embryos in the lab past the point they normally implant in the womb.

Dementia researchers develop a video game they hope could further the development of diagnostic tests for the disease.

The science community pays tribute to Nobel Laureate Sir Harry Kroto, who passed away over the weekend aged 76.

Visit the chasm threatening a British research base

British astronaut Tim Peake says he wants his mission to the space station to change attitudes towards science.

Genes are partly to blame for some dogs getting fat, say scientists who have studied Labrador retrievers.

British industry is to lead the construction of the Biomass satellite which will use an innovative radar instrument to essentially weigh the world's trees.

Solar Impulse, a plane fuelled only by the sun, has landed in the US state of Arizona after a 16-hour flight from California.

Researchers in the US believe they are a step closer to finding the Endeavour, the ship in which Captain Cook sailed to Australia in 1768.

The Australian politician who declared war on Johnny Depp's dogs has a new enemy - the European carp.

The zero-fuel aeroplane Solar Impulse starts to cross the continental USA, flying the first leg from California to Arizona.

As expected, the European and Russian space agencies have delayed the launch of their ExoMars robot rover by two years to 2020.

Barn owls can struggle to survive in cold, wet weather and as low temperatures persist people in Yorkshire are doing their best to give the birds a helping hand as Paul Murphy reports.

UK astronaut Tim Peake has performed a challenging remote control experiment on the International Space Station.

The Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in Switzerland is offline after suffering a short circuit - caused by a weasel.

UK astronaut Tim Peake controls a robot vehicle on Earth from the space station, simulating how humans could one day remotely command vehicles on other worlds.

President Kenyatta of Kenya urges action to end Africa's illegal trade in ivory as he prepares to host a summit on saving elephants from extinction.

Last year's wet summer, followed by one of the warmest winters on record, has helped to create a generation of sleepless slugs, wildlife experts have warned.

Conservationists have come up with a novel solution, using fake versions of the Little Tern, to try to attract the real ones to find suitable nesting spots.

A new nuclear power station in the UK will be the most expensive thing ever built on the planet. True or false?

British astronaut Tim Peake is set to take part in an experiment to control a space rover on Earth from his base on the International Space Station.

Japan's space agency says it will abandon efforts to restore a multimillion dollar satellite sent to explore black holes, after it spun out of control.

A pioneering new treatment is giving is new hope for those with macular degeneration, as Pallab Ghosh reports.

The EU's newest Earth observation satellite, Sentinel-1b, has returned its first radar imagery - of Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago.

The largest field-study so far in to the group of pesticides called "neonicotinoids" has concluded that each acts differently on the brains of the bees.

Scientists describe the processes that drive "ice sails" - a rare and somewhat esoteric feature of debris covered glaciers.

Russia launches the first rocket from its new Vostochny cosmodrome, following a 24-hour delay that drew the ire of President Vladimir Putin.

Billionaire Elon Musk plans to send his Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018.

Scientists in the US have mapped out how the brain organises language.

More than 30 lions which have been rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia are to be flown to a sanctuary in South Africa.

The aftermath of the Chernobyl explosion

The covers come off the huge mirror that the James Webb Space Telescope - the planned successor to Hubble - will use to detect the light from the first stars to shine in the Universe.

A conservationist plans to take flight this autumn alongside thousands of swans as they make a 4,500-mile journey from the Russian arctic to the UK.

Supporting evidence that the Beagle-2 probe is sitting intact on the surface of Mars has come from a new imaging technique developed by UCL scientists.

The European Space Agency launches a second radar satellite into the EU's new Sentinel constellation, to acquire a complete map of the Earth every six days.

The emissions of carbon dioxide from industrial society has spurred a huge growth in trees and other plants, says a report.

In the first study of its kind, scientists have been able to measure the climatic effect of a wind farm on the local environment.