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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.

Historic cars are being retrofitted with recycled electric motors and batteries.

Fancy a job with great sea views? Meet the engineers who maintain 174 turbines in the North Sea.

Climate anxiety is on the rise, so we spoke to climate scientists about what helps them deal with feelings of hopelessness.

Ministers meeting in Milan hear calls for sweeping carbon cuts ahead of the COP26 climate summit.

A lack of butchers has resulted in the supply chain between farm and supermarket becoming blocked.

Boris Johnson says leaders' "reckless actions" created the climate crisis and now is the time to act.

Sir Richard Branson can launch his rocket plane again after making changes to flight procedures.

After the jeers of Greta Thunberg, minsters meet in Italy for the last UN talks before a major climate summit.

The ivory-billed woodpecker is among the 23 species listed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

About 50 bones of the carnivorous dinosaurs are found on a beach in southern England.

Clouds of steam rise as the red-hot current makes contact with the Atlantic on the Spanish island.

Ministers will relax regulation of gene-edited crops to allow their commercial growing in England.

Greta Thunberg, the climate activist, uses a speech to mock world leaders, including UK PM Boris Johnson.

Palaeontologists from Australia found the 'exceptional' fossilised remains in 2016.

Amateur astronomers across the UK capture the strange cone-shaped lights from their back gardens.

Scientists fear plastic pollution will be overlooked as politicians focus on climate change policy.

Three million trees have so far been planted as part of the scheme launched in 2018.

The coal-supporting nation has faced increasing pressure to commit to a net zero emissions target.

How a group of 'hysterical housewives' fought to be evacuated from their polluted homes

Children will face up to three times as many extreme climate events as their grandparents, research suggests.

Wastewater plants release microplastics into the environment, but could manta rays hold the key to a solution?