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Girls in Ethiopia are being given solar lamps to help stop child marriage and keep them in school.

The appalling treatment of Congo's rubber workers led to the world's first photographic human rights campaign.

The teen activist is ridiculed by some French MPs ahead of her speech to parliament.

With a year to go until the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, meet the robots that will be used on site at the events.

Nasa has outlined more details of its plans for a landing craft that will take humans to the Moon's surface in the 2020s.

Nasa's first flight director played a critical role in the first Moon landing 50 years ago.

Roman and early Saxon finds were also discovered at the settlement, which was previously unknown.

Restoring peat moors degraded by farming may prove a relatively inexpensive way of tackling climate change.

The $145m Chandrayaan-2 aims to become the first space mission to land on the Moon's south pole.

The battle between two billionaires vying to take us to the Moon and beyond.

Construction materials, ceramics and food could all one day be printed on the lunar surface.

Will Darling has paddled more than 100 miles in his search for rubbish.

Two BBC presenters put Impossible Foods' meat-free burger to the taste test. How does it shape up?

From pushing boundaries to defying stereotypes - five women who are breaking barriers in science.

Fifty years on, the 03:56 AM TV moment that was out of this world.

The minutes before landing were tense, as fuel was feared to be low and connections were lost between the lunar module and mission control.

An endeavour which was born out of conflict ended by bringing the entire world together, at least for a moment.

Scientists and architects in London have developed 'bio-curtains' to act as an alternative to urban trees.

The pilot whales were spotted during a helicopter sightseeing tour over Longufjorur.

The Environment Agency takes steps to refill a river featured in some of the UK's best-loved paintings.

Pesticides are blamed for Russia's mass bee deaths, while French honey production is also down.

The public is being urged to spend 15 minutes in a sunny spot for the world's biggest butterfly survey.

A study suggests the butts make up the most pervasive form of plastic pollution on the planet.

Photographers and nature lovers capture the natural phenomenon that lights up the sea.

Fifty years ago, James Burke was one of the presenters leading the BBC's live coverage of the Moon landing.

About 600 million were watching in 1969 - thanks largely to an unlikely outpost in rural Australia.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the average temperature was 61.6F (16.4C).

Researchers say the mosque, dating from the 7th or 8th century, would be a rare find anywhere.

Four Russians and two Nasa engineers emerge from four months in a Moscow "spacecraft".

In a UK first, a 7m high barrier of sand is being created to help stop the coastline from crumbling.

Nearly two million cubic metres of sand is being shifted to a stretch of the Norfolk coast to protect it from the sea.

Fish, snails and fungi join a list of threatened species, as conservationists say small, slimy species have been overlooked.

A European lobby group says the range of electric car models available to consumers is getting better.

The Royal Society tells the Tory leadership candidates the UK collaborates more with the EU than the US.

As more of us worry about our carbon emissions, how can you offset your air travel?

A new photography book captures the environmental threat to America's coastal region.

Onlookers watched as a huge pod of dolphins - known as a super- or megapod - swam alongside them.

They warn the party must become proactive in tackling the issue at grassroots level.

Chennai is India's sixth largest city, but its residents are relying on trucks and trains to bring them water.

The Moon appears red on the day of the 50th anniversary of the historic space flight.

Start-up NeuraLink wants to start testing its human computer interface on humans.

MPs say the simple step of adding more ethanol to the UK's fuel mix would be same as taking 700,000 cars off the roads.

Timothy Mwangi has cared for chimpanzees for nearly two decades at this rescue centre in Kenya.

Could a year's global plastic waste circle the Earth four times over?

Michael Collins visits the exact spot the first human mission to the moon launched from 50 years ago.

A leaky component may have been to blame for the dramatic explosion of a SpaceX capsule during testing in April.

Mr Gove says there is a moral, political and economic imperative to tackle climate change.

The Extinction Rebellion group is holding climate protests across the UK.

A House of Lords inquiry looked at the impact of the ban on fishing discards six months on.

The man who allegedly killed Suzanne Eaton was reported to be a father of two from the Greek island.