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Patrick LouisyResearchers have declared a mammal related to the manatee - said to have inspired ancient tales of mermaids and sirens - extinct in China. Only three people surveyed from coastal communities in China reported seeing the dugong in the pa...

Water companies are facing mounting criticism from environmental campaigners and politicians over sewage being pumped on to British beaches. Pollution warnings remain in place across more than 20 beaches and swimming spots in England and Wales after ...

NASA/ESA/CSA/Jupiter ERS Team/Judy Schmidt The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has revealed unprecedented views of Jupiter. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took the pictures of the Solar System's biggest planet in July. The im...

ReutersRussia has accused Ukrainian special services of killing the daughter of one of Vladimir Putin's allies in a car bombing near Moscow at the weekend.Journalist Darya Dugina, aged 29, died on Saturday when a vehicle she was driving exploded near...

Water companies have been accused of failing to monitor sewage discharges at popular British seaside resorts. Data analysed by the Liberal Democrats found that many monitoring devices had either not been installed or do not work "90% of the time". Th...

ReutersRussian leader Vladimir Putin has said UN officials will be granted permission to visit and inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex. The Kremlin made the announcement after a call between Mr Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron. It came...

A robot boat, controlled from the UK, has returned from an initial survey of the underwater Tongan volcano that erupted explosively back in January. The Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) Maxlimer is part-way through mapping the opening, or caldera, of th...

Getty ImagesFrom the crunch of leaves underfoot and the fiery foliage adorning the trees, you might be thinking autumn has come early.But experts say this hint of a change in the seasons isn't genuine. Instead it's the tell-tale sign of a "false autu...

ReutersIn mid-July, a 600kg (94 stone) walrus, affectionately nicknamed Freya, appeared near Norway's capital city in the Oslo Fjord.Not one to remain low-key, she soon became a local celebrity, as videos of her awkwardly and slowly scrambling onto b...

ReutersThe long-time financial chief of Donald Trump's company has pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges at a New York court.Allen Weisselberg, who served as The Trump Organization's chief financial officer, had been charged with concealing...

Getty ImagesChemists have identified how to destroy "forever chemicals" in a low-cost way for the first time, new research says.Scientists have linked exposure to the substances, known as PFAS, at certain levels to serious health risks, including can...

Getty ImagesScientists have made a breakthrough in a genetic approach that improves food crops' ability to harness the Sun.Researchers developed a way to make photosynthesis - the natural process that all plants use to convert sunlight energy into fo...

NASA Next month Nasa will send a new crew into space. And for the first time there will be a Native American woman aboard.Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, will be mission commander - responsible for all...

University of BristolScientists say they have solved an evolutionary mystery involving a 500 million-year-old microscopic, spiny creature with a mouth but no anus. When it was discovered in 2017, it was reported that the tiny fossil of this sack...

Getty ImagesFruit and vegetables on the shelves will be smaller and look different as the summer's hot and dry weather hits crops, experts say.Potatoes, onions, carrots, apples and Brussels sprouts are likely to be worst-affected.Many areas of the UK...

Getty ImagesAround 16 football pitches of trees per minute were lost to forest fires in 2021, a new report says. Data from Global Forest Watch suggests that across the globe, the amount of tree cover being burned has nearly doubled in the past 20 yea...

BaidaA group of 38 migrants, including a heavily pregnant woman, have been found stranded on a tiny, unnamed island along the Turkish-Greek border. The 22 men, nine women and seven children say they have been on the Evros river islet since mid-July.A...

Getty ImagesThe UK government has begun what may be its final effort to resolve a dispute over the UK's membership of the EU's €100bn Horizon research programme.It has written to Brussels urging it to "end persistent delays" in delivering on its prom...

Getty ImagesAfter weeks of hot and dry conditions in most of the UK, with drought declared in parts of England, it might seem that a good downpour is what we need.But the heavy rainfall and thunderstorms forecast by the Met Office this week could ins...

Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesWorld leaders will meet at the UN in New York later for more talks to save the world's oceans from overexploitation. The UN High Seas Treaty has been through 10 years of negotiations but has yet to be signed. If agreed, i...

Jack Garland When you arrive at Kabul International Airport, the first thing you notice is the women, clothed in brown scarves and black cloaks, stamping passports.An airfield, which one year ago was the scene of a panicked tide of people desperate t...

Getty ImagesThe ongoing drought in the UK and Europe is putting electricity generation under pressure, say experts.Electricity from hydropower - which uses water to generate power - has dropped by 20% overall.And nuclear facilities, which are cooled ...

Blasts at a Russian-operated airfield in Crimea this week have "significantly degraded" its navy's Black Sea fleet, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) says. The Saky base in the west of Russian-ruled Crimea was rocked by a string of blasts on Tuesday, ...

Getty ImagesFrom all the pictures of parched fields, dusty soil and dried-up reservoirs, it might appear obvious there's a drought.But from a scientific point of view, it's more complicated than that.There's no one definition of drought - it's differ...