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The new Office for Environmental Protection will have similar enforcement powers to EU regulators.

The US space agency says cyber-thieves may have compromised two of its computer servers.

The entrepreneur says his system will see modified electric cars travel at high speed underground.

A car made from waste plastic has been forced to abort its mission to the South Pole because of bad weather.

A university in Finland has invented a process to turn waste wood into material for clothing.

Ex-Pluto spacecraft New Horizons maintains the trajectory taking it to its next dramatic encounter.

Seal pups across the UK are "at risk" from man-made toxic chemicals present in their mothers' milk.

People will have to pay a returnable deposit on bottles, cans and disposable cups in a new strategy.

The flying reptiles had feathers, and looked like brown bats with fuzzy wings, say scientists.

Dozens of well-preserved dinosaur footprints from at least seven species have been uncovered.

The supersonic vehicle could still race at 1,000mph after an entrepreneur bought the business.

Cement is the source of about 8% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. How can this be changed?

The BBC's Matt McGrath looks back at key developments at UN climate talks that have ended in Poland.

Nearly 200 nations agree rules on implementing 2015 Paris agreement at UN climate talks in Poland.

Climate talks are in an extra day as negotiators try to agree the next steps for the Paris agreement.

Rows continue over the issue of paying poorer countries for damages caused by rising temperatures.

It took five weeks of round-the-clock treatment to keep Benedicte alive after her mother died.

People will have to separate their food waste to combat methane emissions

When the US space agency's next rover gets to Mars in 2021, it will seek evidence of ancient life.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket ship has made a successful test flight, 82.7km above the Earth's surface.