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The Alaskan fishing village taking on 'Godzilla'

Meet the RSPB's 'gadget man' who builds devices to help conservation scientists gather data.

The Amazon.com entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has claimed success on the second flight of his New Shepard spaceship.

Physicists discover a striking sequence of shifting shapes that is formed as the fluid we sneeze breaks up into droplets.

Australia will carry out trials of a genetically modified fruit fly to break the breeding cycle of this crop pest.

How Malawi is tackling climate change with the help of a wood-fired cookstove that generates electricity.

The Amazon.com entrepreneur Jeff Bezos flies his New Shepard spaceship again, and this time proclaims a complete success.

Prince Charles laments the “economic invisibility of nature” and calls on business leaders to act now to save the world’s natural capital.

Rebecca Morelle reports for BBC Newsnight on the background to the upcoming summit in Paris.

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency launches a commercial satellite into space for the first time.

Small generators that use heat to make electricity have gone on trial in parts of Malawi where only 10% of the population has access to power.

A northern white rhinoceros dies in a zoo in San Diego, California, leaving only three of the animals still alive in the world.

A study of ancient DNA has shed new light on the genetic history of Europeans, confirming that farming spread across Europe due to an influx of ancient people from what is now eastern Turkey.

The Philippines, which is vulnerable to climate change, has confirmed controversial plans for more coal-fired power stations.

A DNA study confirms London was an ethnically diverse city from its very beginnings, BBC News has learned.

The BBC's Sarah Rainsford speaks to Tim Peake, who will soon be making history as the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station.

The chief executive of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, Richard Vigne, tells the BBC that in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) is the best option to save the northern white rhinoceros.

Nicole Kidman was named best actress for her role as pioneering British scientist Rosalind Franklin in the play Photograph 51.

A giant plant using energy from the sun to power a Moroccan city at night will open next month.

Royal Society photo award winners

Five US states where climate change could be disastrous

British Astronaut Tim Peake and his crew have completed training ahead of their trip to the International Space Station.

A wave of toxic mud in the Rio Doce river in Brazil from a collapsed dam at an iron ore mine reaches the sea amid concerns of severe pollution.

More than half of all tree species in the Amazon face extinction, warn international scientists.

Tesla boss Elon Musk appeals for software engineers to accelerate plans to build self-guiding cars, as the carmaker recalls all Model S cars sold over a potential seatbelt problem.

The skull of the bear that inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh books is going to be put on public display for the first time in a London museum.

A study finds that pigeons, with training, can identify breast cancer in mammagrams just as accurately as human experts.

A pygmy hippo has been born at Bristol Zoo

What can trees and plants teach us?

A baby pygmy hippo has been born at Bristol Zoo, it is revealed.

The European Space Agency will build a satellite to map from orbit the glow of photosynthesis taking place on Earth.

Using high-speed cameras, scientists glimpse songbirds doing a rapid-fire dance that is invisible to the naked eye.

Scientists capture high-speed footage of songbirds performing a rapid-fire "tap dance" that is invisible to the naked eye.

Should politicians have more say on science funding?

US regulators have given the go-ahead to genetically modified salmon, making it the first GM animal destined for human consumption.

A government-commissioned review says UK science funding should be determined by a single independent agency, and overseen perhaps by the chancellor himself.

Reflective paint, which could "save hundreds" of Dartmoor's livestock from being killed by vehicles, is put on ponies after an initial trial is deemed a success.

Scientists say the contribution of a melting Antarctica to sea level rise this century will be significant and challenging, but that some nightmare scenarios are just not realistic.

Bees exposed to widely-used nicotine-like pesticides are not as good at pollinating crops, according to a study.

The UK's remaining coal-fired power stations will be shut by 2025, energy secretary Amber Rudd proposes.

For the first time, researchers eliminate a devastating amphibian fungal disease in a population of toads.

A new study sheds light on unanswered questions about the risks of pesticides to bees.

Scientists say a particular fold at the front of the brain tends to be shorter in those schizophrenia patients who experience hallucinations.

A new calculation fixes the total amount of groundwater on the planet, held in rock and soil below our feet, at 23 million cubic km.

Wet and cold spring and summer weather is blamed for one of Scotland's rarest breeding birds having a poor season.

Some of the UK's dung beetle species are becoming scarcer and could even face extinction, according to scientists gathering information on the insects.

The "huge dependency" of refugees on wood and charcoal-based fuels has horrific consequences on refugees' health, a report has warned.

This year's El Niño weather event is expected to gain in strength before the end of this year according to the latest research.

Geneticists have detected a fourth ancestral "tribe" which contributed to the modern European gene pool.