BBC News - Science & Environment

Saudi Arabia - one of the world's biggest oil producers - says it's pivoting to green energy. But will reality live up to the rhetoric?

The tree is one of many cloned from the one that led Isaac Newton to discover the laws of gravity.

The proposed measure is likely to be dropped from an animal welfare bill, after ministers raised concerns.

An abrupt drop in emissions due to the pandemic played a key role in record rainfall in China in 2020.

Charlie the pet stick insect is revealed to be both male and female after moulting.

Hundreds of thousands more are now threatened by Storms Dudley and Eunice bearing down on Britain.

Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected, research finds.

Astronomers no longer believe a rocket stage that's due to hit the Moon was from Elon Musk's SpaceX.

An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed.

Experts may have detected a planet in the habitable zone of a nearly dead star called a white dwarf.

The koala was not even classified as vulnerable until 2012, but it has seen a rapid decline.

Climate change is putting roads under stress but research is finding ways to make them more durable.

The industry regulator orders the two wells in Lancashire to be plugged with concrete.

A US company is speeding up the path to practical fusion energy using Google's vast computing power.

The cost of heating is rising - experts say government help is needed to insulate millions of homes.

New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa.

The energy secretary says renewable power is the best way to shield the UK from volatile gas prices.

Giant sponges survive on the remains of extinct animals in cold, deep waters near the North Pole.

Scientists issue a stark warning over the need to make hard choices about the way we use the land.

Michel Roccati tells the BBC he "almost has a normal life" again thanks to an electrical implant.

Services such as shops, schools and doctors are often almost impossible to reach on foot or by bike

David M’zee received an electrical implant to his spine in 2017, it enables him to walk slowly and stand.

Aerosol asthma inhalers are cheap but not good for climate change - is there a better way for both patients and the planet?

An investigation finds some 4,500 classified ads on social media, offering African grey parrots for sale.

A fall in demand for Icelandic whale products means the controversial practice is no longer profitable.