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Cash could be used for new technology or to provide training to more staff, the government says.

A blurring of the distinctions between seasons is also a challenge for insects and their predators.

A blurring of the distinctions between seasons is also a challenge for insects and their predators.

Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.

A biodiversity hotspot has become the stomping ground of poachers.

A biodiversity hotspot has become the stomping ground of poachers.

The animals - including a Bengal tiger, cougars and bobcats - have died of the virus over the past several weeks.

Staff working out in the wilds of Antarctica share their Christmas Day plans.

Staff working out in the wilds of Antarctica share their Christmas Day plans.

There has been lots of aurora activity seen in the UK this year and there is likely to be even more in the coming year.

It will plunge into our star's outer atmosphere to uncover its secrets

"Yana" is the latest pre-historic discovery in a crater in a remote region of Russia.

Planned legal changes will see three neonicotinoid pesticides completely banned from any future use.

They include a neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire and an Iron Age hill fort on the edge of Dartmoor.

Nasa says that the astronauts stuck on the space station will have to wait even longer to get home.

Climate change makes it trickier for Churchill's residents to co-exist with increasingly hungry predators

India tested its first analog space mission in the Himalayan mountains of Ladakh.

A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.

A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.

Climate change could increase flood threats without improvements to defences, the Environment Agency warns.