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The England and Wales subsidies cover just 90,000 gas boilers out of more than 20 million households.

The government wants people to replace gas boilers with heat pumps.

The blade, which is encrusted with marine organisms, is believed to be about 900 years old.

New materials are making body armour lighter but nanotechnology could provide a breakthrough.

Prof Phil Jones, portrayed in BBC drama The Trick, says climate scientists must be protected.

BBC science correspondent Matt McGrath answers your questions about Glasgow's COP26 climate summit.

Two friends growing coral and the country of Costa Rica are among five winners receiving £1m each.

Making energy supply to homes and businesses more flexible could help the UK meet its climate goals.

The BBC's Nick Beake meets the young climate activists trying to stop Norway drilling for oil and gas.

The Nebra Sky Disc is dated 3,600-years-old and considered one of the most important archaeological finds.

India's oldest and tallest mountain of rubbish in the city of Mumbai is 18 storeys high.

The Russian film crew return after an ISS shoot that had its own moments of drama.

Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert says medical science has transformed ambitions for new vaccines.

The senior huntsman gave the hunting advice in private webinars that were leaked online.

The sea turtle washed ashore a riverbank in Massachusetts this week.

Regulation, the pandemic and extreme weather are among factors causing high stress to farmers.

A final decision for the location of the UK's prototype fusion energy plant is due in 2022.

The prince says great minds should focus "on trying to repair this planet" not exploring space.

Emissions from the richest countries are going up again this year as the global economy rebounds.

A team of people in the north of England are now making clothes, from seeds to finished garments.

India's ironing vendors use charcoal as fuel, but Vinisha Umashankar's cart harnesses the Sun's energy.

The government faces pressure to get the bill passed ahead of the COP 26 climate conference.

The actor who played Captain Kirk in the classic TV show is the oldest person ever to go to space.

Discarded waste like mobile phones and TVs in 2021 could weigh more than 57 million tonnes.

An image of a bursting cloud of eggs and sperm as groupers mate in the Pacific is the judges' pick.

The Environment Agency says hundreds could die in a flooding event at some point.

Carbon emissions from making building materials - or embodied carbon - had led to calls to end demolitions.

Journalist Maria Ressa was the only woman to win a Nobel Prize this year, and just the 58th in history.

Senior black scientists tell the BBC they believe UK science to be "institutionally racist".

The Prince of Wales tells the BBC he sympathises with protesters - but any action must be constructive.

Tourists flock to California’s famous sequoia trees, but wildfires are threatening their existence.

The UK has an average of only 53% of its biodiversity left, well below the global average, study shows.

Tests in the UK have shown that artificial lightning can strip pollutants from animal manure.

The BBC travels to Wuzhou to see how cities are grappling with climate targets and a "build" mantra.

Britons are cutting their meat consumption, but not quickly enough, according to scientists.

The environmental group had argued permission should not have been granted by the UK government for the Vorlich oil field.

Intel is making an effort to combat the global semiconductor shortage at their new site in Arizona.

The lone insect found in Surrey may be a stowaway or part of an undiscovered population.

Ahead of COP26, Ros Atkins looks at what the world's biggest emitters are doing to tackle climate change.

Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But what's the evidence?

After years of trials, the vaccine has shown potential to save tens of thousands of children's lives.

A Briton and a German have been awarded the chemistry Nobel for their work to build new molecules.

Climate academics from some of the regions worst hit by warming are struggling to be published.

An actress and film director dock with the International Space Station in a first for Russia.

The physics Nobel has been given for work to understand complex systems such as the Earth's climate.

Antarctic snowfall two-and-half centuries old forms the basis of a new artwork by Wayne Binitie.

Immigrant deaths in New York's floods lay bare the 'climate apartheid' wrought by extreme weather.

William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk, is set to become the oldest person to fly to space.

Boris Johnson says the UK can get all its electricity supply to "complete clean energy production" by 2035.

The spill has been described by one official as a potential ecological disaster.