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Actor Marion Cotillard says even remote places like "pristine" Antarctica are being harmed by humans.

The firm says it plans to build up to 15 of the mini reactors, which can be delivered by a lorry.

As temperatures drop in Florida more and more iguanas are plummeting to the ground.

Experts say the man's brain, found in the Roman town of Herculaneum, was affected by extreme heat.

Taxes may be needed to curb eating meat and dairy in the effort to combat climate change.

The first survey in decades will look at the 40 or more species thought to be living in Britain.

The West African country has partnered with UNICEF to transform landfill waste into bricks for schools.

EDF Energy wants to build new reactors next to the existing Sizewell B near Minsmere nature reserve.

At the World Economic Forum, he asked: "Do we want to go down in history as the people who did nothing?"

Acute stress damages stem cells that control hair and skin colour, a study suggests.

The heir to the throne calls for a "paradigm shift" in the way the world deals with climate change.

The 2.2 billion-year-old asteroid impact may explain the end of an ice age, scientists say.

A UK-led satellite aims to get an absolute measurement of the light reflected off Earth's surface.

The Swedish climate activist and the US president gave very different speeches at Davos.

Roads are dominating new housing developments, a report says, despite more people wanting to drive less.

The US president attacks activists at the World Economic Forum, with Greta Thunberg in the audience.

The 17-year-old activist tells world leaders that 'fiddling around with numbers' will not be enough.

The US president called for the rejection of "the perennial prophets of doom" during his speech.

Tie-up of flexible solar film and energy storage aims to take homes and business off-grid.

Research is at an early stage but scientists said it had huge potential for destroying cancers.

One of the world's biggest users of plastic plans to phase out most single-use items by 2025.

High pressure at Heathrow Airport reaches 1,049.6 millibars - a record for the UK's capital.

The impact of humans on nature may have been far greater and longer-lasting than we thought, say scientists.

But it rejects a claim by a man whose Pacific Island nation is threatened by rising sea levels.

Malaysia will not become "the garbage dump of the world", says the country's environment minister.

Bioluminescent algae in Jervis Bay, Australia, glows in a captivating night time display.

The price of the precious metal palladium has hit a record high of $2,500 an ounce as demand rises.

China is a country caught in the middle of a global struggle: to develop but also be green.

The US company demonstrates how it would rescue astronauts during a failing rocket launch.

A final technology demonstration from the California company should clear the way to fly astronauts.

Scientists have identified 3,000 ash trees with suspected resistance to a deadly disease.

A team of scientists discounts the idea that large-scale volcanism drove the demise of the dinosaurs.

Australia's Kangaroo Island has been likened to Noah's Ark - but its unique wildlife is under threat.

UK panel will tackle some of the dilemmas around global warming.

As more cities declare climate emergencies, we look at how Glasgow aims to cancel out its carbon footprint.

From population to plants, your questions answered about climate change.

How much more efficiency can be wrung out of the jet engine - technology which is over 70 years old?

Conservationists mapped the most critical areas of Scotland for endangered birds like the kittiwake.

The tech giant promises to remove all the carbon it has emitted since its founding in 1975.

Satellites continue to monitor the Philippines volcano which has experienced a lull in activity.

Europe's six-wheeled robot completes more key tests ahead of its planned summer launch.

The Belgian traveller was trying to smuggle the protected species from Peru to Spain, officers say.

The naturalist and broadcaster has warned that "the moment of crisis has come".

The BBC plans a raft of new services and shows examining climate change and the state of our planet.

It's been linked to a year of extremes – from bushfires to torrential rains – but what is it?

We're at a pivotal point in efforts to tackle climate change, the naturalist and broadcaster warns.

This teenager found a new planet on the third day of his internship at the US space agency.

Soil protection will be a core issue as the Agriculture Bill returns to Parliament later.

Until now, there's been little evidence our evolutionary relatives could swim.