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Getty ImagesBy Georgina RannardClimate reporter in Sharm el-SheikhA promise from the developed world to foot more of the climate bill has raised fresh hopes of breakthrough at the UN climate summit COP27.Nations meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, are...

Getty ImagesBy Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondentUN climate talks were meant to end on Friday but nations are deeply divided over cash to help poor countries cope with the impacts of climate change. The idea of phasing down the use of all fossil f...

"The proposals adopted today for the requiem and hammerhead sharks, championed by the government of Panama, will forever change how the world's ocean predators are managed and protected," said Luke Warwick, director of shark and ray conservation at t...

American Bird ConservancyBy Tiffanie TurnbullBBC News, SydneySome 140 years after the black-naped pheasant-pigeon was last sighted by scientists, researchers have "rediscovered" the rare bird.After a month of searching, a team in September captured f...

Getty ImagesBy Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondentUN climate talks head to a conclusion on Friday with nations deeply divided over cash to help poor countries cope with the impacts of climate change. The idea of phasing down the use of all fossil f...

ZSL, Alice ChamberlainBy Nayana Mena BBC NewsThousands of pieces of plastic debris from all over the world have washed up on a remote South Atlantic island, according to conservationists.Litter found on the south-western coast of Ascension Island has...

By Ziad Al-QattanBBC News ArabicAs Egypt hosts world leaders at COP27 to discuss action over climate change, an oil terminal is dumping toxic wastewater on the country's Red Sea coast, an investigation by BBC News Arabic has found. A rare form of cor...

The report reveals that in many developing nations - which are facing the worst impacts of climate change - women have greater responsibility for securing water, food and fuel for their families, which can be more difficult during floods, drought or ...

Dr Greg Asner, an ecologist at Arizona State University, says the information is "very alarming", showing pollution from lead, cadmium, copper, nickel and other heavy metals. "You don't have to be an expert to know that something is not right here," ...

NASABy Jonathan AmosBBC Science CorrespondentThe American space agency Nasa has launched its biggest ever rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The 100m-tall Artemis vehicle climbed skyward in a stupendous mix of light and sound.Its objective is to ...

Ayisha Siddiqa, 23, is from Pakistan, is one of the headline speakers at the Children and Youth Pavilion. It's the first time young people have had a dedicated space like this, where last week activists held a formal meeting with UN Secretary-General...

The head of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has said after the collapse of rival FTX that no one can be protected from a “bad player” and announced plans for an industry ‘‘recovery fund” for struggling crypto firms. Changpeng Zhao (pictur...

Getty ImagesBy Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondentA key target to stop climate change raising global temperatures is now in doubt at a UN summit.Climate change talks have been trying to limit the average rise in temperatures to 1.5C.But at talks in...

Getty ImagesBy Victoria Gill and Ella HamblyBBC NewsBirdsong, snowdrops, blossom and midge bites - these are not things you associate with November in the north of England. But these are just some of the milder side effects of a warming world. As wel...

By Owen PinnellBBC News ArabicFar removed from the world leaders making climate pledges at COP, are people like Ali Hussein Julood, a young leukaemia survivor living on an Iraqi oil field co-managed by BP. When the BBC discovered BP was not declaring...

ReutersBy Georgina RannardClimate and science reporter, BBC NewsIt is the duty and responsibility of every nation to act on climate, US President Joe Biden has said at the UN summit COP27.Mr Biden spoke in Egypt after US mid-term elections delivered ...

Among those who signed the statements made by the Academy of Medical Sciences are Wellcome, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, Pfizer, Life Arc, the Association of Medical Research Charities, the Institute of Cancer Research, the...

Although Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, UN climate expert, acknowledges that the report is "bleak", she says there are reasons to be hopeful: "There is evidence of responses from the public and private sectors, and from NGOs, community organisations,...

By Lebo DisekoGlobal Religion CorrespondentAs politicians meet to discuss how to cut carbon emissions, descendants of Southern Africa's first inhabitants are raising concerns about an oil and gas exploration project. Religious leaders have also spoke...

By Noel Titheradge, Ed Thomas and Chris BellBBC NewsPrivate security patrols are being used to protect crops and expensive farm equipment amid a rural crime wave in England and Wales, the BBC has learned.Farmers have told the BBC that police rarely s...

FABRICE COFFRINI/AFPBy Jessica ParkerBBC Brussels correspondentThe UK and Switzerland are striking a deal on science collaboration as both countries continue to be blocked from a major EU scheme.Political tensions mean the two nations have been shut ...

By Lebo DisekoGlobal Religion CorrespondentAs politicians meet to discuss how to cut carbon emissions, descendants of Southern Africa's first inhabitants are raising concerns about an oil and gas exploration project. Religious leaders have also spoke...

"Some days I just don't want to get out of bed," she says, adding that, because of the rain, seeing friends takes much more effort, exercise is confined to indoors, hanging washing out on the line is basically impossible, and the house feels perpetua...

ReutersBy Reality Check teamBBC NewsThere has been criticism on social media of delegates arriving at the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.The day before the conference began, hundreds of environmental activis...