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Consumers should not have to pay excessive prices to use public car charging, MPs say.

As lion populations decline across much of Africa, could community-led conservation help reverse this trend?

The billionaire offers to cover $2bn in Nasa costs to be reconsidered for a Moon lander contract.

The first in-person climate meeting in 18 months sees some tentative progress, but no breakthroughs.

Cities across the world are at risk of extreme rainfall overwhelming their streets

New research indicates that stained glass windows from Canterbury Cathedral may be among the oldest in the world.

A two-week virtual negotiation begins on the most critical climate change report since 2013.

The device avoids clogging by using friction instead of suction, similar to the way a parasitoid wasp lays its eggs.

PM Naftali Bennett says the decision will help the country gradually shift to a low-carbon economy.

The meteor is believed to have landed in a forest after flashes of light were seen across Norway.

The US government has tightened rules on which space-goers can claim their astronaut wings.

Government guidelines mean road planners can effectively ignore climate change, campaigners say.

A program has been used to predict the structures of nearly every protein in the human body.

The firm had said in May it would no longer accept the cryptocurrency over environmental concerns.

The 13m-long, 20-tonne Nauka laboratory is finally going into orbit after a delay of 14 years.

Scientists are excavating one of the most important Jurassic sites ever discovered in the UK.

The nation's largest active wildfire forces thousands to evacuate in the state of Oregon.

The world's richest man and three other passengers return safely just over 10 minutes after launch.

Wally Funk was overlooked for space flight in the 60s but got a second chance with Jeff Bezos.

US climate envoy John Kerry says help from China is needed to avoid a dangerous rise in heat.

Dennis Tito paid $20 million to travel to the International Space Station in 2001.

It covers south-west England and large parts of Wales as the UK experiences a prolonged hot spell.

Engineers restore the Hubble Space Telescope to full operations, after a computer glitch in June.

With construction sand in short supply crushed plastic is being used as an alternative.

Ministers say elephants are not the only animals at risk from hunters, as they launch consultation.

Pressed flowers and a poem found inside a centuries-old botany book sparked a quest to find the owner.

Ros Atkins explains the link between climate change and recent heat waves in the US and Canada.

It comes amid growing concern about congestion, competition and even an arms race in space.

Scientists want a super-computer powerful enough to accurately project the most damaging extremes.

Hydrogen-powered cars could be the future of Formula 1 according to Ross Brawn, the F1 managing director for motorsports.

Oliver Daemen, 18, will become the youngest person to fly to space with the Blue Origin venture.

Boris Johnson says he will consider the proposal, but finds the idea of extra taxes on people unattractive.

More than 100 developing countries set out key demands ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow.

A possible cause is identified for the Hubble telescope's worst glitch in years.

It proposes taxing jet fuel and effectively banning the sale of petrol cars within 20 years.

Rising heat and deforestation cause eastern parts of the Amazon to become carbon sources, not sinks.

The policy has been ridiculed by environmentalists who say the government is putting too much faith in innovation.

Thousands of young people are joining a mission to help solve the environmental crisis facing their generation.

Edward Jenner is credited with inventing the vaccine but his method was pioneered by a Dorset farmer.

If they go out of business it will "rip the heart out of the British countryside", he says.

The annual fire season has barely started - and there are claims that 2021 might be the worst year yet.

Goldfish released into the wild can grow much bigger and cause major disruption to ecosystems.

Smartphones and satellite data help indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon to limit deforestation.

Wildlife authorities say the unprecedented number of deaths was primarily caused by starvation.

The UK businessman realises a lifetime's ambition by riding a rocket plane high into the sky.

The BBC tracks the long, winding road to Sir Richard Branson's flight to the edge of space.

The UK businessman is set to realise a lifetime's ambition by flying to the edge of space.

Virgin Galactic's chief astronaut instructor, Beth Moses, describes the experience of spaceflight.

Researchers aim to "set the record straight" on how the virus transferred from bats into humans.

It's not the new record temperatures that concern the BBC's Roger Harrabin - it's the way they were smashed.