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"If you are black or a woman, you don't see yourself fitting in," a leading female physicist says.

A UK study says record-breaking temperatures in NW India and Pakistan are now 100 times more likely.

Massive tractors and combine harvesters could be having a lasting impact on soil, a study suggests.

Its hue was created by sunlight being projected through the Earth's atmosphere onto the Moon.

The Moon will slowly darken and turn red as it falls into Earth's shadow.

The research is an important step towards making long-terms stays on the moon possible.

Participants will be given their personal plastic footprint at the end of the week.

Heatwaves, wildfires, floods and droughts highlight how extreme weather is linked to climate change.

The mammals are moving further north into the Arctic and having an impact on landscape and people.

A new report says the government must do more to protect the land, the air and waters.

The number of big firms setting climate targets reaches a 'critical mass' say UN-backed researchers.

The final version of the 19m-long Prime rocket is to be launched from a site in Sutherland.

Theoretical physicists develop a mathematical model to explain how birds dip and dive in whirling flocks.

Campaigners say the aviation industry cannot be relied on to tackle their role in climate change.

Scientists say there's now a strong chance that the world will warm by more than 1.5C by 2026.

The tooth of the world's largest-ever shark could be up to 20 million years old, an expert says.

"Historic" extreme weather likely to stoke New Mexico fire, which is already the size of Chicago.

Scientists call for electronic waste to be mined for precious metals as supplies of new materials become ‘unsustainable’.

Efforts to protect these beautiful insects include driving electric tractors and hand-rearing them in a lab.

Only 10 of the small silver porpoises are left on the planet, but genetic studies offer new hope.

A 75-year woodland study shows a marked seasonal shift in the timing of egg-laying in spring.

The US-New Zealand Rocket Lab firm takes a big step forward in its quest to re-use launch vehicles.

The dazzlingly bright planets appear extremely close together in the dark sky this weekend.

A charity says people should leave their lawnmowers in the shed next month, to let wild flowers grow.

Wildfires in Russia drive major increase in tree cover losses in boreal forests last year.

The BBC gets an exclusive look at a new project to help students deal with rising climate anxiety.

Crocodiles and turtles are in a particularly dire situation, according to a global assessment of risks.

There is a “chronic under-appreciation” of the potential of the countryside, says a new report.

Switching to futuristic foods will reduce carbon emissions and save land and water, a study suggests.

An experiment to find out has just finished on the International Space Station.

Campaigners take to rivers across the UK in 12 protests against water companies dumping sewage.

Peasants occasionally hosted lavish meat feasts for their rulers, researchers say.

The BBC gets an exclusive look at the upgraded machine helping to overhaul our understanding of the Universe.

Simply designating an area as "for nature" does not mean it is beneficial for wildlife, researchers find.

The broadcaster is recognised for his devotion to telling stories about the natural world.

Combined pressures of global heating and farming can halve insect populations in some places - study.

The UK Fireball Alliance believes the space rock landed in Shropshire last week.

How it feels to treat your depression with a hallucinogenic drug.

Suggestions emissions could rise for another three years without dangerous warming are wrong, scientists say.

Scientists map coral reefs in the Caribbean to identify those most likely to survive climate change.

It's 85 miles wide, which is larger than the US state of Rhode Island. And it's coming this way.

"Staggering" findings from studying 16 mammals - including humans - sheds light on why we age.

Scientists say their analysis is "encouraging" but keeping under 1.5C this century looks unlikely.

Bushfires have killed many thousands of the marsupials, who are threatened with extinction.

Shane Cronin gets a close-up view of the underwater volcano that erupted spectacularly in January.

Cumbrian councillors are reviewing their support for a controversial coal mine near Whitehaven.

Ministers want to stop some councils in England charging for the disposal of materials.

Four men leave Earth on a commercial mission to spend eight days at the orbiting platform.

Researchers rejuvenate a 53-year-old woman's skin by decades, but clinical applications are a way off.

Scientists find a sub-atomic particle's mass is at odds with one a theory underpinning modern physics.