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Temperatures reach 38.7C in southern Spain today as an influx of heat from Africa brings summer early.

The UK's major pension firms vote against BP's chair after the company cut its climate ambitions.

One of the earliest scientific findings signed by a woman is part of a newly-digitised collection.

Communication is lost with Japan's Hakuto-R lunar moments before it is due to touch down.

Only the United States, Russia and China have successfully landed a spacecraft on the Moon.

There’s growing concern that the oceans are heating up quickly – and scientists are unsure of the implications.

How re-wiggling artificially straightened rivers can give nature a boost.

The electricity line between the UK and Netherlands could provide green power to 1.8 million UK homes.

You want to do more about climate change, but how do you persuade the people who call the shots?

Northern elephant seals sleep underwater for just two hours per day on their months-long foraging journeys.

A healthy lioness is caught on camera in a national park where big cats have not been seen since 2004.

Tourists and scientists swell the population of a Western Australia town to view a rare solar eclipse.

There is widespread speculation over a flash that lit up the skies over the Ukrainian capital.

Ambitious targets to halt the decline in nature may already be slipping out of reach, research suggests.

'Mermaid Merle' swam 30 miles all while collecting 35lbs of trash in Biscayne Bay.

The "spectacular" skeleton, sold to a private buyer, is nearly 12m long and 4m tall.

Poultry can now be kept outdoors in the UK but experts are on alert for a new influx in wild birds.

Installed in a Low Traffic Neighbourhood, it has been repeatedly run over, bent, burned and, finally, stolen.

Demand for air travel will be hit as decarbonisation drives up ticket prices, says industry.

Workers responsible for protecting England's environment will stage a three day walkout over low pay.