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Getty ImagesBy Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment reporter, BBC World ServiceIn its updated climate action plan submitted recently to the United Nations, India has mentioned adopting an environment-friendly lifestyle as a key way to combat climate change....

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...

H2MBy Chris BaraniukTechnology of Business reporterAn old diesel freight train in British Columbia, Canada is about to get a new lease of life.Local firm Hydrogen in Motion (H2M) is currently converting the Green Goat locomotive to run on a mix of hy...

Getty ImagesBy Georgina RannardClimate and science reporter, BBC NewsThe war in Ukraine is a reason to act faster to tackle climate change, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told the UN climate summit COP27."Climate and energy security go hand-in-han...

Getty ImagesThe Moon was bathed in red on Tuesday during a total lunar eclipse visible from North America to the Pacific but not in Europe.The eclipse's totality, where the Moon is entirely in Earth's shadow - lasted between 10:17 and 11:42 GMT. It w...

China has ordered an industrial park that includes the world’s largest Apple Inc AAPL iPhone assembly plant to enter a seven-day lockdown related to rising COVID-19 concerns. What Happened: According to a Reuters report, China has imposed COVID-19 lo...

Three UK conservation groups say all options are on the table as they challenge what they describe as a government U-turn on protecting nature. The National Trust, RSPB and Wildlife Trusts said they could urge millions of members to take to the stree...

Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong. They say their "mini-brain" can sense and respond to its environment. Writing in the journal Neuron, Dr Brett Kagan, of the company Cortical...

Christoph Vorburger By Rowenna Hoskin Climate and science reporter, BBC News Switzerland has reversed the decline of more than half of endangered frogs, toads, and newts in one region, research finds. After conservationists dug hundreds of new ponds ...

By Helen Briggs Environment correspondent Traditional orchards are vanishing from the landscape, with an area the size of the Isle of Wight lost in a century. But community orchards are booming, thanks in part to renewed interest in living off the la...

For years the question of what to do with old fishing nets was a real headache. Fishermen sometimes dumped them at sea, or they were brought to shore and discarded in landfill. Now thanks to a scheme organised by Keep Britain Tidy, old fishing nets a...

BBC/Frank GardnerBy Frank GardnerBBC security correspondent, northern UkraineThe human and material cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is well documented. But rare species of animals and flowers that had flourished in the country's north have also ...

BBC/Frank GardnerBy Frank GardnerBBC security correspondentThe human and material cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is well documented. But rare species of animals and flowers that had flourished in the country's north have also been badly hit by ...

Thomas BarwickA quarter of the clothes in our wardrobes haven't been worn in a year, even though we're getting better at keeping them for longer, a study finds.A survey by environmental group WRAP estimates that the UK's wardrobes hold 1.6 billion un...

Getty Images By Rowenna Hoskin and Matt McGrath BBC News Climate and Science The world has finally agreed on a long-term plan to curb carbon emissions from flying. At a meeting in Montreal, the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO), pledged t...

Northern Rogue StudiosBy Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsThe evolutionary secrets of a 230-million-year-old fossil reptile have been revealed, after a century of it being "locked inside a block of stone". Researchers used powerful X-ray s...

UK Atomic Energy AuthorityBy Tony Roe & Alex SmithBBC NewsA power station has been chosen to be the site of the UK's, and potentially the world's, first prototype commercial nuclear fusion reactor.Fusion is a potential source of almost limitless ...

Getty ImagesA company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from UK taxpayers is cutting down environmentally-important forests, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.Drax runs Britain's biggest power station, which burns mi...

BBC/Claire Marshall Steve Phillips' place has bare walls, no TV, and a single small sofa. But at least now he has a roof and a bed - and his name on a tenancy agreement. Aged 45, this is the first place he can call home. Steve says that after sufferi...

Mike SymesEurasian beavers have been recognised as a European protected species in England, making it illegal to capture, kill, injure or disturb them.The move limits measures previously available to "control" beavers. Landowners will not be able to ...

Hussein Faleh/BBCMajor oil companies are not declaring a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, a BBC News investigation has revealed.The BBC found millions of tonnes of undeclared emissions from gas flaring at oil fields where BP, Eni, Exxo...

Getty ImagesAn environmental activist has been killed every two days on average over the past decade, a new study shows.The report from Global Witness says that more than 1,700 people have died while trying to prevent mining, oil drilling or logging ...

Hussein Faleh/BBC NewsMajor oil companies are not declaring a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, a BBC News investigation has revealed.The BBC found millions of tonnes of undeclared emissions from gas flaring at oil fields where BP, Eni,...

Queen's University, BelfastOur canine companions have proven once again how finely tuned they are to our feelings - this time in scientific sniffing test. Scientists discovered that dogs can smell stress in our breath and sweat. Four dogs - pets volu...