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Andrey Atuchin / Virginia TechScientists have unearthed in Zimbabwe the remains of Africa's oldest dinosaur, which lived than 230 million years ago. The Mbiresaurus raathi was one metre tall, ran on two legs and had a long neck and jagged teeth. Scie...

Christian ZieglerA tender moment or something more sinister? The image appears to show a bonobo cuddling a little mongoose like a treasured pet. But instead, maybe the monkey took the mongoose pup for dinner after killing its mother.But that would be...

OrstedThe world's largest offshore wind farm is now fully operational, 55 miles off the coast of Yorkshire. The Hornsea 2 project can generate enough electricity to power about 1.3 million homes - that's enough for a city the size of Manchester.A dec...

Getty ImagesRussia has completely halted gas supplies to Europe via a major pipeline, saying repairs are needed. The Russian state-owned energy giant, Gazprom, said the restrictions on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would last for the next three days. Ru...

NASAThe US space agency says it will try to launch its new Moon rocket on Saturday.An attempt at a lift-off on Monday had to be scrubbed when one of four engines on the vehicle would not cool down to its required operating temperature.After reviewing...

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...

Russia's plan to expand its armed forces is unlikely to have an impact on the Ukraine war, the UK's Ministry of Defence has said. Vladimir Putin recently signed a decree to increase the Russian armed forces' military personnel to more than 1.15m - 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...

ReutersThe FBI told a judge they expected to find "evidence of obstruction" of justice in a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home, according to newly released court papers. Investigators said top secret files had been stored at Mar-a...

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...

On Ukraine's Independence Day, locals living in Ukraine's capital Kyiv have been sharing their thoughts on the war after six months of conflict with Russia.Normally, a massive military parade marches to the city's centre, but public events in the cap...

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 ...