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Edward Jenner is credited with inventing the vaccine but his method was pioneered by a Dorset farmer.

If they go out of business it will "rip the heart out of the British countryside", he says.

The policy has been ridiculed by environmentalists who say the government is putting too much faith in innovation.

Goldfish released into the wild can grow much bigger and cause major disruption to ecosystems.

The annual fire season has barely started - and there are claims that 2021 might be the worst year yet.

Smartphones and satellite data help indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon to limit deforestation.

Wildlife authorities say the unprecedented number of deaths was primarily caused by starvation.

The UK businessman realises a lifetime's ambition by riding a rocket plane high into the sky.

The BBC tracks the long, winding road to Sir Richard Branson's flight to the edge of space.

The UK businessman is about to realise a lifetime's ambition by flying to the edge of space.

Virgin Galactic's chief astronaut instructor, Beth Moses, describes the experience of spaceflight.

Researchers aim to "set the record straight" on how the virus transferred from bats into humans.

In remote towers, US Forest Service lookouts act as an early warning system for forest fires.

Experts are heartened by a new found interest in the "underappreciated and under-threat" insects.

Without global warming, the searing heat seen in the western US and Canada "just doesn't occur," say scientists.

North America experienced its warmest June on record and experts say the figures are frightening.

It's not the new record temperatures that concern the BBC's Roger Harrabin - it's the way they were smashed.

An Australian craft brewery is using microalgae to turn their carbon emissions into oxygen.

Marina Vitaglione used a traditional photographic process to create striking images of air pollution in London.

Converting agricultural land to forestry would boost summer rains by 7.6% on average, a study finds.