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The decision to ditch standard Russian uniforms was interpreted as a show of solidarity for Ukraine.

Experts say the UK should reduce the amount of toxic "forever chemicals" allowed in drinking water.

Researchers find that "brown carbon" from wildfire smoke is helping to melt Arctic snow and ice.

People living in the area, which has Unesco World Heritage status, are being asked to adapt.

The cities turning to huge heat pumps to provide warmth to thousands of homes and businesses.

Researchers say they have solved one of science's biggest paradoxes, first identified by Prof Stephen Hawking.

But the government says particle standards will come in as quickly as is realistically possible.

Racism is "pervasive" in chemical sciences, according to an investigation by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

A small area of Scotland is the home of a groundbreaking experiment to power homes with green hydrogen.

The new style of electricity pylon is designed to reduce the impact on the local environment.

Russia risks being scientifically isolated as partnerships with research institutes end, expert says.

Pearce Jarrett is the founder of an award-winning app but didn't originally think it was a career for him.

An energy strategy is due - but can it get the UK off Russian gas, cut bills and help the environment?

The EU Commission outlines an ambitious roadmap to cut imports of Russian gas by two thirds in a year.

The world's largest rainforest is fast losing its ability to bounce back from human impacts, researchers say.

The Moon's far side should now have a new crater after being hit by a large chunk of space junk.

The board of London-based OneWeb, part-owned by the UK government, votes to stop using Soyuz rockets.

A leading climate expert says the Ukraine invasion is closing the window of opportunity to curb global warming.

Russia's space agency is refusing to launch OneWeb satellites part-owned by the UK government.

Nearly 200 countries agree to start negotiations on a global treaty to tackle the plastic "crisis".

The UK government has authorised the emergency use of a type of pesticide almost entirely banned in the EU because of the harm it can cause to bees.

The SpaceX founder sends Starlink dishes to Ukraine but how do they work and how might they be used?

The part-government-owned firm OneWeb is due to send up satellites via Kazakhstan this week.

Smoke from Australian wildfires affects the layer that shields the Earth from harmful UV rays.

The justices heard an appeal from 19 mostly Republican-led states, led by coal state West Virginia.

IPCC scientists outline a harrowing summary of climate impacts already hurting people and species.

But a disaster at the defunct nuclear power plant there is "extremely unlikely", experts say.

The drones are being used to find pools of water that mosquitos use to breed.

The government's climate change advisers say new oil and gas in the North Sea would not lower bills.

The number of exceptional wildfires will increase by 50% by the end of the century, the UN warns.

The cost of living crisis has led backbench Conservative MPs to call for a rethink of the government's plans.

A student on a field trip finds the world's largest complete fossil of a 170-million-year-old pterosaur.

It is illegal to mine these areas of the rainforest but the government wants to change the law.

The population of hedgehogs in rural Britain has continued a "steep decline", say conservationists.

The study will focus heavily on how warming hurts regions as well as cities and coastal communities.

Saudi Arabia - one of the world's biggest oil producers - says it's pivoting to green energy. But will reality live up to the rhetoric?

The tree is one of many cloned from the one that led Isaac Newton to discover the laws of gravity.

The proposed measure is likely to be dropped from an animal welfare bill, after ministers raised concerns.

An abrupt drop in emissions due to the pandemic played a key role in record rainfall in China in 2020.

Charlie the pet stick insect is revealed to be both male and female after moulting.

How eight million trees have already been brought down this winter, with thousands more threatened by storms.

Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected, research finds.

Astronomers no longer believe a rocket stage that's due to hit the Moon was from Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Climate change is putting roads under stress but research is finding ways to make them more durable.

An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed.

Experts may have detected a planet in the habitable zone of a nearly dead star called a white dwarf.

The koala was not even classified as vulnerable until 2012, but it has seen a rapid decline.

The industry regulator orders the two wells in Lancashire to be plugged with concrete.

The cost of heating is rising - experts say government help is needed to insulate millions of homes.