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It is illegal to mine these areas of the rainforest but the government wants to change the law.

The population of hedgehogs in rural Britain has continued a "steep decline", say conservationists.

The study will focus heavily on how warming hurts regions as well as cities and coastal communities.

Saudi Arabia - one of the world's biggest oil producers - says it's pivoting to green energy. But will reality live up to the rhetoric?

The tree is one of many cloned from the one that led Isaac Newton to discover the laws of gravity.

The proposed measure is likely to be dropped from an animal welfare bill, after ministers raised concerns.

An abrupt drop in emissions due to the pandemic played a key role in record rainfall in China in 2020.

Charlie the pet stick insect is revealed to be both male and female after moulting.

Hundreds of thousands more are now threatened by Storms Dudley and Eunice bearing down on Britain.

Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected, research finds.

Astronomers no longer believe a rocket stage that's due to hit the Moon was from Elon Musk's SpaceX.

An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed.

Experts may have detected a planet in the habitable zone of a nearly dead star called a white dwarf.

The koala was not even classified as vulnerable until 2012, but it has seen a rapid decline.

Climate change is putting roads under stress but research is finding ways to make them more durable.

The industry regulator orders the two wells in Lancashire to be plugged with concrete.

A US company is speeding up the path to practical fusion energy using Google's vast computing power.

The cost of heating is rising - experts say government help is needed to insulate millions of homes.

New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa.

The energy secretary says renewable power is the best way to shield the UK from volatile gas prices.