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The UK will set a new legally binding target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The crops developed by Norman Borlaug have saved millions of people from starvation.

Rusty is five weeks old and was born in captivity - so needs a little help to spread his wings.

America's heartland has faced months of record-breaking floods. Why is it so bad now and what's the impact?

The survival of a calf which had a "lethal" virus will help the global fight against it, a zoo says.

The new cars being tried out in Porto Santo can sell solar power electricity back to the island grid.

Land Speed Record holder Andy Green explains why the design of a superfast car can't just be done in a computer.

Almost 600 plant species have been lost from the wild in the last 250 years, according to a new study.

A forest that lies at the heart of India's bustling city is under threat, locals say.

BBC One presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall investigates what we can all do to reduce our use of plastic.

Letters from one the fertility treatment's pioneers says Jean Purdy contributed as much as him.

The French were probably sipping wines we drink today 900 years ago, according to DNA from old grapes.

A school in Nigeria is accepting empty plastic bottles in exchange for payment of school fees.

Evidence points to a 1.2bn-year-old impact structure lying hidden off Scotland's north-west coast.

South Korea's dogs have to go for walkies in some of the worst air in the developed world.

Engineers in Canada have devised a machine they say can clean small pieces of plastic from Hawaii's "Trash Beach".

A proposed European Union satellite mission could have major benefits for agriculture.

The US space agency says it will allow tourists to visit the station from 2020.

Antarctic glaciers are named after the spacecraft that revolutionised our understanding of the continent.

The two largest outbreaks of the disease have been in the past five years.