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Even light exposure to oil from disasters like the Deep Water Horizon oil spill makes flying more difficult for birds.

A controversial new fishing technique is being tested in the Netherlands using electric pulses.

One day, the immunotherapy could free patients from daily insulin injections.

The size of a tennis court, it will shield the vision of the biggest space telescope ever built.

A video tracks the behaviour of the protective atmospheric layer over Antarctica across all of 2016.

New images have been released of wildfires that continue to burn close to the Greenland ice sheet.

Scientists study the chemistry of penguin plumage to track the birds' movements.

The eight foxes have started "training" in the back garden of a family in Leicester.

Chantek could also clean his room, make and use tools and learn the route to a restaurant.

There are huge uncertainties in greenhouse gas totals due to inaccurate data, the BBC finds.

Thousands of the "rare" tadpoles have been spotted at a reserve despite adverse breeding conditions.

There are now four species of wild snake native to the UK, not three as scientists first thought.

The algorithm learned to recognise sarcasm, allowing it to spot hate speech faster than humans.

The first record of a pine marten living in Yorkshire for about 35 years

A rash of new incinerators could make it impossible for the UK to meet future recycling targets.

Lisa Kikuchi of SenSprout tells the BBC how she is developing soil moisture sensors to help Japan's farmers.

It's ziplines versus a Sunoco pipeline in one Pennsylvania family's backyard.

The whale heart at Royal Ontario Museum Canada is a rare find, as blue whale carcasses usually sink.

The work will examine how to keep energy bills down while meeting the UK's climate change targets.

Weather-related deaths will spike by 2100 if nothing is done to curb climate change, scientists say.