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How Israel is embracing veganism

Why do sperm whales die in the North Sea?

Big Boy, a funnel-web spider with a leg span of 10cm, is the largest specimen ever handed in to Australia's only venom-milking programme.

Swimming with toxic fish and 'sexy shrimp'

Victoria Gill joins a team of scientists as they set up remote cameras to observe penguin colonies in the Antarctic.

A team of researchers led by Dr Tom Hart at Oxford University has set up a network of penguin-monitoring cameras throughout the Antarctic Peninsula.

The widow of North Face co-founder Douglas Tompkins opens talks with Chile on donating a vast nature reserve to be turned into national parks.

US entrepreneur Jeff Bezos reflies the New Shepard rocket and capsule system he launched and recovered last November.

A BBC News crew is in Antarctica following a team of British researchers who are monitoring penguins.

Storks feeding on rubbish dumps instead of migrating are more likely to survive the winter, research shows.

As red kites prepare to mate and breed, volunteers in County Down are out identifying potential nest sites so they can check for chicks later in the season.

Scientists say the Venus flytrap controls its digestion process by gauging the number of times a struggling insect touches its trigger hairs.

A Jurassic sea beast found in a Cambridgeshire quarry could prove to be a new species of plesiosaur, scientists say.

Scientists say satellite tagging basking sharks off Scotland has given valuable insights into their behaviour of the world's second biggest fish.

Images from a microscope of healthy and infected algae inspires the designs of a Scottish-based textiles producer.

The scientist who was 'made' by a purple frog with a snout

Karen Allen meets a rhino breeder with a controversial solution to stop poachers killing his animals for their horns.

Details are emerging of plans to pay farmers who manage their land in a way that helps prevent flooding in towns and cities.

British-born astronaut Piers Sellers tells of living life at "20 times normal speed" after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Sir David Attenborough speaks to Huw Edwards about the discovery of a new species of titanosaur, which is the biggest animal ever to walk the earth.

US astronomers claim to have strong evidence that there is a ninth planet in our Solar System. We asked you to send us your suggested names for this new arrival.

Archaeologists say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of warfare between hunter-gatherers, at a site in northern Kenya.

Why do astronomers in the US think there they have discovered a ninth planet in the solar system?

The discovery of what may be the world's biggest dinosaur is told in a new BBC One documentary.

Three baby otters have been found outside a Florida home in Palm Shores.

A sperm whale stranded on a beach in Western Japan is dragged back out to sea by fishermen.

Scientists studying birds in the Himalayas discover that one species of thrush is in fact two.

Exposure to toxin from algae linked to dementia

Nevada desert home to ambitious transport project

Nasa's chief scientist says she is a bit "sceptical" about the existence of a ninth planet in our Solar System.

Global temperatures in 2015 were the warmest on record, according to data published by meteorologists in the UK and US.

A 201-million-year-old dinosaur that fell out of a cliff face in Wales in 2014 is formally named Dracoraptor hanigani - the "dragon thief".

American astronomers say they have strong evidence that there is a ninth planet in our Solar System orbiting far beyond even the dwarf world Pluto.

Five planets will align across the dawn sky on Wednesday in a rare treat for skywatchers.

Global temperatures in 2015 were the warmest since records began, according to data published by meteorologists in the UK and the US.

What is China doing to clean its air?

Do beards hold the key to new antibiotics?

Images from an unmanned aerial vehicle suggest excessive management of floodplains limit their ability to hold water and slow the flow of floodwater.

Residents of one of Germany's foremost car manufacturing bases are urged to leave their vehicles at home after smog breaches maximum safe levels.

The present-day English owe about a third of their ancestry to the Anglo-Saxons, according to two new studies.

The amount of fish taken from the world's oceans has been underestimated by more than 50% according to a new study.

A company producing GM mosquitoes says it is to open a new factory in Brazil as it expands its operations.

A private UK fertility clinic is offering couples a new form of IVF treatment that allows conception to occur in the womb rather than in the lab.

This is the moment an unmanned SpaceX Falcon rocket exploded on landing after successfully delivering an ocean monitoring satellite to orbit.

Jason-3, a US-European satellite that is fundamental to our understanding of the oceans, is launched from California.

The UK government extends the "blue belt" of protected marine areas around the British coastline.

The making of British space hero Tim Peake

Nasa has ended the spacewalk involving British astronaut Tim Peake after his US colleague reported water in his helmet.

The European Space Agency is eager to develop its interest in a robot mini-shuttle just selected by Nasa to help ferry cargo to the space station.

Tim Peake is carrying out the first ever spacewalk by an astronaut representing the UK.