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The new cars being tried out in Porto Santo can sell solar power electricity back to the island grid.

Land Speed Record holder Andy Green explains why the design of a superfast car can't just be done in a computer.

Almost 600 plant species have been lost from the wild in the last 250 years, according to a new study.

A forest that lies at the heart of India's bustling city is under threat, locals say.

BBC One presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall investigates what we can all do to reduce our use of plastic.

Letters from one the fertility treatment's pioneers says Jean Purdy contributed as much as him.

The French were probably sipping wines we drink today 900 years ago, according to DNA from old grapes.

A school in Nigeria is accepting empty plastic bottles in exchange for payment of school fees.

Evidence points to a 1.2bn-year-old impact structure lying hidden off Scotland's north-west coast.

South Korea's dogs have to go for walkies in some of the worst air in the developed world.

Engineers in Canada have devised a machine they say can clean small pieces of plastic from Hawaii's "Trash Beach".

A proposed European Union satellite mission could have major benefits for agriculture.

The US space agency says it will allow tourists to visit the station from 2020.

Antarctic glaciers are named after the spacecraft that revolutionised our understanding of the continent.

The two largest outbreaks of the disease have been in the past five years.

Special protections are planned for minke whales and basking sharks in their feeding grounds around Scotland.

Animals have long been used for military purposes, but could marine creatures also act as sensors?

The chancellor warns the PM that reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 could lower public spending.

A carving believed to be about 12,000 years old has been discovered in south-western France.

The technology is designed to cut down queues, and lose the annoyance of removing liquids from bags.