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The spotted handfish is critically endangered and found only in a small area of Tasmania.

The full story of the Brumadinho dam disaster could take many months to emerge, the BBC's David Shukman says.

The UN wants to cut down on food waste amid rising concerns about obesity. Here's how one hotel is helping out.

The UN wants to halve the amount of food we waste. Here's how one hotel in Norway is helping out.

Developed by a team at MIT, the robot uses AI and may be used in industrial automation in the future.

French rugby is currently under a shadow cast by the deaths of four players in the past eight months

Schools are closed and the government's deploying drones to deal with the problem.

You could be unwittingly eating sharks that are on the brink of extinction, a study suggests.

European settlement of the Americas killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate.

The deep freeze gripping much of the US has been blamed on a polar vortex. Here's what that means.

A research cruise gets under way as part of the biggest ever US-UK joint venture in Antarctica.

SeaWorld says Kayla, aged 30, "inspired generations of guests and employees to care and learn".

Investors are calling on KFC, McDonalds and others to cut warming gases from their dairy and meat supply chains.

How much do you know about the iconic symbol of science pinned to every classroom wall?

Anna Bergstrom runs a shopping mall in Sweden where everything for sale is recycled. Her goal is to make sustainable shopping fashionable.

Thousands of lakes are set to lose their ice cover within a generation due to rising temperatures.

The UK's Ministry of Defence approaches an Oxford start-up to help design a sovereign satellite radar system.

Researchers have genetically modified chickens to lay eggs which contain drugs that fight cancer.

Pollution from farmers' fields that endangers fish is cut by a university-backed project.

The coming days will see an attempt to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship.