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The beams will be shone on a hillside to see if they scare the birds away from sheep flocks.

On 5 January 1993 an oil tanker ran aground off Shetland spilling 85,000 tonnes of crude oil.

After 10 years, a team at Cardiff University helps identify a process to speed up drug development.

The UK throws away 2.5 billion non-recyclable coffee cups every year, MPs say.

Repeat bouts of warmer seawater are posing a significant challenge to the world's tropical corals.

A payment plan post-Brexit to reward planting wildflower meadows and woodland is to be delayed.

The 11,500-year-old bones of a child unearthed in Alaska shed light on the peopling of the Americas.

Scientists have unveiled the first bionic hand with a sense of touch that can be worn outside the laboratory.

Fewer fires globally may help explain the recent change in atmospheric methane, a study says.

Fed up with motorway driving? Now you can switch to virtual reality thanks to a new driverless car from Renault.

More hurricanes? Rising temperatures? BBC meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker looks ahead to the year.

A glimpse into the life the Inupiat, an indigenous community in Alaska.

The systems will save billions of pounds by enabling the diseases to be picked up much earlier.

The BBC's Dan Johnson visited a plant in Southwark to see how they're dealing with recycling build-up.

In 2012 a form of gene editing was discovered, it is called CRISPR Cas9. It uses "molecular scissors" to alter a very specific strand of DNA.

Young freshwater pearl mussels are being grown at a fishery in Powys

People across Britain reported seeing a large greenish light streak across the sky on Sunday evening.

UK does not have capacity to deal with extra plastic waste after a Chinese import ban, says industry group.

The BBC's global science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, reveals what to watch out for in the new year.

BBC News looks ahead to some of the biggest science and environment stories coming up in 2018.