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Decades of conservation efforts by China lead to a rise in the number of giant pandas, as they are taken off the endangered species list.

Millions of honeybees have been killed in South Carolina after pesticide was sprayed to kill off mosquitoes that could be harbouring the Zika virus.

Lun Lun, a 19-year-old giant panda, has given birth to twins - she also had twins in 2013.

China's top legislative body ratifies the Paris global climate agreement, ahead of an expected joint announcement with the US.

Microbeads used in bathroom products are expected to be banned by the government by the end of next year.

NASA has released spectacular images of Jupiter that have never been seen before.

The US space agency releases pictures and other data from the Juno probe, which has just made its first close approach to Jupiter since going into orbit in July.

Samsung has halted sales of the Galaxy Note 7 because of battery fire reports.

Scientists working on the largest study of ticks in dogs have found that almost one third of dogs checked at random across the UK were found to be carrying a tick.

Thousands of people have watched the Moon pass in front of the Sun, to make a so-called "ring of fire".

Europe's biggest biomedical laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute, has opened in London.

SpaceX was fuelling the unmanned Falcon 9 rocket for a test engine firing when the blast happened.

Scientists in China find that a dog vaccine can also protect large livestock against rabies infection.

An annular eclipse delivered a memorable spectacle across several African countries, as the moon's movement creates a "ring of fire" in the sky.

An explosion takes place on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the aerospace company SpaceX was readying a rocket for launch.

One of the world's rarest stick insects successfully breeds at Bristol Zoo - the first time the species has done so outside Australia.

Free movement between the US and Mexico - the hottest of topics in the 2016 US presidential campaign - is not just a human issue.

A look at Kenya's fast-growing crocodile farm industry, which is enjoying a big rise in demand for the animal's meat, led by China.

A drug that destroys the characteristic protein plaques that build up in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's is showing "tantalising" promise, scientists say.

Some of the world’s earliest life forms may have been captured in squiggles found in ancient rocks from Greenland.