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The television presenter is to urge greater action in a major speech at UN climate talks next month.

Sir David Attenborough will join the UN in taking a message from people around the world to the December climate change talks in Poland.

The millipede is "new to science" and has only ever been found in three places - all in south Wales.

Caroline Herschel discovered eight comets - one was named after her - but her work is less known about than her brother William's.

Scientists in Finland and the UK have built a computer model that visualises groundwater levels in real time.

At least 50 people in the US and Canada have been infected, health officials say.

The official was criticised for risking the UN's reputation by extensive use of expensive travel.

The dead sperm whale, which washed ashore in Indonesia, had ingested nearly 6kg of plastic waste.

The entrepreneur would not reveal why he had renamed the craft, which has still not yet been built.

There is debate around how much Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva, contributed to his discoveries.

America's next robot rover will be sent to a 50km-wide depression that once had water running through it.

Scientists discover how the marsupials are the only known species producing cube-shaped faeces.

Cutting emissions from heavy industry would generate savings and boost economic growth, commission argues.

The Dynasties crew took a rare decision to intervene when a group of stranded emperor penguins faced death.

Sainsbury's is the first UK supermarket to stock edible insects - but just how tasty are they?

British industry will build new spacecraft for telecoms operator Eutelsat's flagship TV distribution network.

A scientist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich says resistant seeds could help beat the fatal disease.

Farwiza Farhan on efforts to protect the forests where orangutan, rhinos, elephants and tigers co-exist.

Sophia Jex-Blake was a pioneer of women's education on her way to be Scotland's first female doctor.

Scientists are set to change the way the kilogramme is defined.