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A ruling will decide whether Heathrow's expansion plan should have taken the climate more into account.

The discovery comes from new research that could boost conservation plans.

A shepherding spacecraft grabs an ageing telecoms satellite to help extend its mission life.

Sir Richard Branson's firm says it is releasing more tickets for flights into space.

The winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year competition 2020.

A native predator of the red squirrel seems to be an unlikely ally in its battle with its grey rival.

A campaign is under way in Paris to ban heaters due to concerns about their electricity use.

The price of tomatoes have skyrocketed in East Africa in recent weeks after floods ruined crops.

The head of the Environment Agency says new buildings should be made more resilient to flooding.

The Rosalind Franklin robot will be moved from Cannes to Turin to fix a fault on its solar panels.

But the UN health body says the coronavirus outbreak does not yet meet the criteria for a pandemic.

From animals to humans, how did the deadly coronavirus make the leap? We look at the scientific evidence.

3D printing is meeting some of the ambitions touted when the technology emerged 20 years ago.

Ms Johnson, who helped launch the first American into orbit, was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures.

The US space agency's InSight probe detects over 450 significant seismic events since landing in 2018.

The 'breathtaking scale' of the Australian bushfires were way beyond anything climate science predicted, say scientists.

Scientists say charismatic but lesser-known "flagship species" are key to raising money for conservation.

Educated people cause most harm to the planet so schools must change, say teenage climate campaigners.

Researchers at Brown University found bots were far more likely to post tweets denying climate change.

How unwanted food is processed to produce electricity and fertiliser.

A discovery at an ancient temple divides experts over possible links to the city's legendary founder.

Researchers claim it could be used to kill some of the world's deadliest bacteria.

Nic Bonne, who uses 3D-printed models to study galaxies, wants more people to stargaze.

Mya-Rose Craig has been campaigning for equality in the environmental movement since 2015.

Academic and electronic musician Bertolt Meyer has hacked into his prosthetic arm and connected it to his synth.

New measures to protect migrating species have been agreed at an international summit in India.

She appeared on TV shows ranging from Blue Peter to The Sky At Night, as well as documentaries.

The biggest animal on Earth is returning to waters where it was nearly driven to extinction.

Ammonia, the key ingredient of fertiliser, can be burned in ships’ engines in place of polluting diesel.

About half the flights young men take each year are for stag dos - and that generates a lot of emissions.

The ravenous pests have devoured crops and pasture threatening a food crisis in East Africa.

Researchers describe the first "articulated" remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade.

The US space agency's next rover will hunt for life's traces among the rocks of the Red Planet.

The deadliness of the virus advances progressively with the age of the patient, research suggests.

The UK's first industrial contribution to the orbiting platform will improve its communication links.

Andrew Sabisky said that he wanted to help the government, "not be a distraction".

The Amazon boss and world's richest man gives 8% of his fortune to fight the planet's "biggest threat".

Labour calls for Andrew Sabisky to be sacked over reported comments on race and eugenics.

Scientists at the Open University are studying minerals collected during the 1969 Moon landings.

Bayer and BASF are told to pay huge damages to a Missouri peach-grower.

A new supercomputer is to be built by 2022 to improve the accuracy of weather forecasting.

A US firm claims the service it offers saves more than a tonne of carbon, after a pilot study.

The future scientific relationship is the European Research Council's biggest challenge, new head says.

Astronomers want more public funds to help search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

US researchers call for more regulation around the sale of sex robots with artificial intelligence.

Smoke from wildfires may have long-term health effects, according to US research on juvenile monkeys.

Mysterious archaic hominins may have interbred with early humans in West Africa, scientists say.

Communities on the coast face "serious questions" against the background of climate change.

As sea levels rise, difficult decisions are being made about which communities to save.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic rocket plane transfers to New Mexico for final testing.