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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.

A US company is speeding up the path to practical fusion energy using Google's vast computing power.

New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa.

The energy secretary says renewable power is the best way to shield the UK from volatile gas prices.

Giant sponges survive on the remains of extinct animals in cold, deep waters near the North Pole.

Scientists issue a stark warning over the need to make hard choices about the way we use the land.

Michel Roccati tells the BBC he "almost has a normal life" again thanks to an electrical implant.

Companies including Google, Amazon and Ikea are not meeting their own green targets, a report finds.

Services such as shops, schools and doctors are often almost impossible to reach on foot or by bike

David M’zee received an electrical implant to his spine in 2017, it enables him to walk slowly and stand.

Aerosol asthma inhalers are cheap but not good for climate change - is there a better way for both patients and the planet?

An investigation finds some 4,500 classified ads on social media, offering African grey parrots for sale.

A fall in demand for Icelandic whale products means the controversial practice is no longer profitable.

France's fisheries minister calls for an inquiry after a trawler spills more than 100,000 blue whiting.

The melting is endangering both climbers and locals who rely on the glaciers for drinking water.

Plugging methane leaks from oil and gas fields could be an easy win in curbing climate change.

The latest bid to find Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's lost polar yacht is set to get under way.

Nasa says the ISS will operate until 2030 before the agency hands over to commercial companies.

The bones, including those of a woolly rhinoceros and wolf, were found on a housing development.

Government needs to clearly spell out the major changes required in the years ahead, a committee says.

A student-built rover is being prepared for a launch to the Moon later this year.