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Sea temperatures in some areas off the UK and Ireland are 4C above average.
Normally the insects are targeted with insecticide, but US researchers say anti-malaria drugs absorbed through their legs can stop them spreading disease.
Fish made famous by the movie Finding Nemo are shrinking to cope with marine heatwaves.
Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year.
The company pauses its "retention scheme", which pays out cash to top executives linked to its rescue loan.
Researchers in the US and Japan are competing to explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies.
A group of researchers have come to Pipestone Creek in Canada to figure out why thousands of dinosaurs are buried here.
Researchers in Japan and US have unlocked the 60-year mystery of what gives cats their orange colour.
The warning comes after some parts of the UK had the driest Spring in nearly a century.
The research builds on the discovery that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate.
The BBC meets astronaut Rosemary Coogan who is training at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas.
First Moon samples collected in nearly 50 years and loaned by China for the first time are now in the UK.
It has been moved to Germany's Black Forest in preparation for its release
Sandeels are a vital source of food for seabirds that live along the UK coastline.
Study provides hope for future of the axolotl amphibian, pushed to the brink of extinction in Mexico.
The prolonged dry, sunny weather in March and April created ideal conditions for wildfires to spread.
Climate activists may be going deeper underground.
The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.
Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.
Scientists are investigating for the first time how dangerous the island's next big one could be.
A pilot project will test whether it is a useful way of fighting climate change.
Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target.
Stunned scientists say the extremely rare squid can weigh up to 500kg (1,100lb).
Wildfires 'could spell the end' for rare species such as water voles and hen harriers.
Six women - including pop star Katy Perry - blasted off into space as part of an all-women suborbital mission
The sandstorm blanketed southern regions in an eerie, orange haze and shut down airports.
The couple is suspected of selling exotic cats online, including protected species such as white tigers.
The spacecraft, which launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus, circled Earth for over five decades.
Could discoveries of alien life ever change the human psyche in how we view ourselves and each other?
Dolphins circled their capsule after it landed off the coast of Florida.
Differences in seawater colour could reveal how tiny Antarctic creatures are faring in a warming world.
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
Officials at Elon Musk's company said the upper stage was lost, minutes after it launched.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company blasts its first rocket into orbit in a challenge to Elon Musk.
Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought.
The goal of limiting warming to 1.5C is too high to avoid continued sea-level rise, scientists warn.
Ministers should have been better at planning and making sure green jobs were available, report says.
In a blow to the government's clean energy ambitions, a company cancels a huge windfarm off Yorkshire.
Skeletons and artefacts unearthed from the site near Cardiff Airport are baffling archaeologists.
The 3D replica corroborates eye witness accounts about what happened after the liner hit an iceberg.
And did they have enough underwear?
The president once derided attempts to develop new green technology as a "green new scam" - but his deal could help boost the US's potential in the sector
How a new atomic clock might be the way to tackle attacks on plane GPS systems
The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national treasure".
40 years since we discovered a hole in the Ozone layer, we ask what threatens it today
A new study says 99.999% of the world’s deep seafloor is still unseen by humans.
Massive power cuts brought parts of Spain, Portugal and France to a standstill this week.
Reaction to White House proposals to cut funding for Nasa and a future asteroid fly past
