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Donald Trump's plan to erect a huge sea wall at his Irish golf course have been withdrawn in the light of stiff opposition.

Glasgow Prestwick Airport signs an agreement with Houston Spaceport as it continues its bid to become the UK's first launch site.

A project is underway to record the underwater behaviour of Britain's grey seals.

The regular use of Caesarean sections is having an impact on human evolution, say scientists.

Fossils of possibly the earliest backboned four-legged animals to walk have been found in Scotland.

Robot aircraft are to be tested in UK airspace to help refine systems that control autonomous planes.

Although progress is being made, up to US $906bn of company turnover is still tied to global deforestation, an assessment suggests.

The UK has bought the capsule which sent Tim Peake into space and returned him to Earth.

Flooding across parts of the UK last winter was the most extreme on record, experts say.

A huge alligator snapping turtle got stuck in a blocked drain pipe in Houston, Texas.

Hunter Mitchell raised thousands of dollars to save Osita the rhino.

European research ministers meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, emphatically reaffirm their commitment to putting a robot rover on Mars in 2021.

The leaders of four major global cities say they will stop the use of all diesel powered cars and trucks by the middle of the next decade.

Europe's research ministers negotiate over funding for the space station and a rover to land on Mars and search for life.

Global food policy needs to shift way from focusing on feeding people enough calories to nourishing people, say leading food experts.

Analysis of black organic fragments found in the Sutton Hoo boat burial reveals they are bitumen from Syria.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos says it has lost contact with an unmanned cargo ship heading for the International Space Station.

Proposals by the Trump administration to roll back US environmental regulations are likely to foment opposition, say analysts.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, is evacuated from the South Pole after falling ill.

Europe’s research ministers are meeting to decide whether to try to land a robot rover on Mars.