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The European Space Agency's new small satellite launcher, Vega, puts the Proba-V vegetation satellite in orbit.

Anbarasan Ethirajan visited Nepal's Chitwan National Park, which has one of the few Gharial crocodile breeding centres in the world.

A dramatic decline in the number of Arctic foxes on one island is being linked to levels of mercury in their food.

Floods that swept through western Nepal one year ago changed the course of a river and may yet change the course of tourism in the region.

A group of amateur surveyors has been climbing and re-measuring some of Britain's highest peaks, to see if they are high enough to be called mountains.

Carbon dioxide is rapidly altering the chemistry of the Arctic, and the changes will last many thousands of years, a report says.

The world’s first gun made using a 3D printer is successfully tested in the US by a group planning to make the blueprints available online.

Researchers are looking at ways to persuade people to get their protein from bugs instead of meat.

Fishermen have said the harsh and prolonged winter in Scotland has been disastrous for the country's lobster industry.

Researchers have developed the first global model that analyses the routes taken by marine invasive species.

A solar-powered aircraft that developers hope to eventually pilot around the world has landed in Phoenix Arizona on the first leg of a flight across America.

Work has begun to raise the only surviving German World War II Dornier 17 bomber from its watery grave at Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast.

A powerful tornado has hit towns and villages close to the Italian city of Bologna, injuring 11 people.

Work has begun to raise the only surviving German World War II Dornier 17 bomber from its watery grave at Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast.

The Solar Impulse plane, which holds records including the longest manned zero-fuel flight, completes the first leg of a bid to cross the US.

The second outing of Europe's new small satellite launcher, Vega, is postponed because of unacceptable windy conditions in French Guiana.

A crew of fishermen in New Zealand got more than they bargained for when they attempted to reel in a 600kg swordfish.

Saluting the best conservation solutions

Indigenous communities say that illegal logging and land speculators are threatening Central America's most important tropical forest.

The world's most dedicated conservationists have been recognised at the annual Whitley Fund for Nature awards.