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Billionaire Jeff Bezos will launch into space in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship.

The Bootleg Fire has burned an area larger than New York City and forced thousands to evacuate.

Engineers restore the Hubble Space Telescope to full operations, after a computer glitch in June.

With construction sand in short supply crushed plastic is being used as an alternative.

Ministers say elephants are not the only animals at risk from hunters, as they launch consultation.

Pressed flowers and a poem found inside a centuries-old botany book sparked a quest to find the owner.

Ros Atkins explains the link between climate change and recent heat waves in the US and Canada.

It comes amid growing concern about congestion, competition and even an arms race in space.

Scientists want a super-computer powerful enough to accurately project the most damaging extremes.

Hydrogen-powered cars could be the future of Formula 1 according to Ross Brawn, the F1 managing director for motorsports.

Oliver Daemen, 18, will become the youngest person to fly to space with the Blue Origin venture.

Historic reforms of the food system are needed to protect the NHS and the environment, a review finds.

More than 100 developing countries set out key demands ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow.

A possible cause is identified for the Hubble telescope's worst glitch in years.

Rising heat and deforestation cause eastern parts of the Amazon to become carbon sources, not sinks.

It proposes taxing jet fuel and effectively banning the sale of petrol cars within 20 years.

Thousands of young people are joining a mission to help solve the environmental crisis facing their generation.

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.