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Getty Images People need to be 'less squeamish' about drinking water taken from sewage treatment plants, the head of the Environment Agency has said. Water companies are planning "toilet-to-tap" systems, also known as water recycling, to turn sewage ...

Tiffany WertheimerNasa has called off the launch of its big new Moon rocket - the Space Launch System (SLS).Controllers struggled to get an engine on the 100m-tall vehicle cooled down to its correct operating temperature.They had previously worried a...

NASA The American space agency is counting down to the lift-off of its giant new Moon rocket - the Space Launch System. SLS is the most powerful vehicle ever developed by Nasa, and will be the foundation of its Artemis project which aims to put peopl...

Oliver Dixon/RHS Record-breaking hot and dry weather this summer has seen more exotic plants including figs and avocadoes growing in the UK, gardeners have told BBC News. It's part of a trend of Mediterranean and sub-tropical plants thriving in recen...

Getty Images Sales of peat to amateur gardeners will be banned in England from 2024, the government has confirmed. The move follows a consultation and is part of a pledge to restore peat lands. These wild, boggy places are sometimes referred to as th...

Steve De Neef/Universal Images Group/ Getty Images A fifth effort to pass a global agreement to protect the world's oceans and marine life has failed. Talks to pass the UN High Seas Treaty had been ongoing for two weeks in New York, but governments c...

After more than 70 days of extreme temperatures and low rainfall, China has seen its worst drought on record.Southern China has recorded its longest period of drought since records began, 60 years ago.The country is now using cloud seeding to try and...

NASA/JSC/ASU/Andy Saunders"I've always wanted to see what they saw, to step on board that spacecraft, to look through that same window, and to see what they saw when they walked on the Moon."Andy Saunders has an obsession. It's Project Apollo, one of...

The men in waders looked solemn as they heaved buckets of dead fish from a boat and lay the corpses on a tarpaulin stretched out on the riverbank. They had been doing this for eight days near the city of Szczecin, faces masked against the nauseating ...

Copernicus Sentinel/Sentinel Hub/Pierre MarkuseAs Europe's energy costs skyrocket, Russia is burning off large amounts of natural gas, according to analysis shared with BBC News.They say the plant, near the border with Finland, is burning an estimate...

A network of dams built by beavers in Devon has helped to maintain an area of wetland despite a drought in the South West. There are a number of beaver families living on land owned and farmed by Clinton Devon Estates.They were the subject of a five-...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Launching a rocket into space requires a lot of time, planning, money - and the right weather. Simon King explains.source

Copernicus Sentinel/Sentinel Hub/Pierre MarkuseAs Europe's energy costs skyrocket, Russia is burning off large amounts of natural gas, according to analysis shared with BBC News.Experts say the gas would previously have been exported to Germany. They...

Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/Getty ImagesThe way Google calculates the climate impact of your flights has changed, the BBC has discovered.Flights now appear to have much less impact on the environment than before.That's because the world's biggest sear...

Jeremy ThomasAn endangered butterfly that was once extinct in the UK has had its best summer in 150 years.The large blue butterfly is one of Europe's most endangered insects but thousands have been recorded this summer in south-west England.It is the...

Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/Getty ImagesThe way Google calculates the climate impact of your flights has changed.Your flights now appear to have much less impact on the environment than they did before.That's because the world's biggest search engine ...

Patrick LouisyResearchers have declared a mammal related to the manatee - said to have inspired ancient tales of mermaids and sirens - extinct in China. Only three people surveyed from coastal communities in China reported seeing the dugong in the pa...

Water companies are facing mounting criticism from environmental campaigners and politicians over sewage being pumped on to British beaches. Pollution warnings remain in place across more than 20 beaches and swimming spots in England and Wales after ...

NASA/ESA/CSA/Jupiter ERS Team/Judy Schmidt The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has revealed unprecedented views of Jupiter. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took the pictures of the Solar System's biggest planet in July. The im...

Water companies have been accused of failing to monitor sewage discharges at popular British seaside resorts. Data analysed by the Liberal Democrats found that many monitoring devices had either not been installed or do not work "90% of the time". Th...

A robot boat, controlled from the UK, has returned from an initial survey of the underwater Tongan volcano that erupted explosively back in January. The Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) Maxlimer is part-way through mapping the opening, or caldera, of th...

Getty ImagesFrom the crunch of leaves underfoot and the fiery foliage adorning the trees, you might be thinking autumn has come early.But experts say this hint of a change in the seasons isn't genuine. Instead it's the tell-tale sign of a "false autu...

ReutersIn mid-July, a 600kg (94 stone) walrus, affectionately nicknamed Freya, appeared near Norway's capital city in the Oslo Fjord.Not one to remain low-key, she soon became a local celebrity, as videos of her awkwardly and slowly scrambling onto b...

Getty ImagesChemists have identified how to destroy "forever chemicals" in a low-cost way for the first time, new research says.Scientists have linked exposure to the substances, known as PFAS, at certain levels to serious health risks, including can...