The first Earthshot Prize, given by the Royal Foundation, is awarded this weekend.

The Star Trek actor becomes the oldest person to go to space.

Prince Charles tells the BBC he was surprised that the Australian PM had suggested he might not attend.

The actor – who plays Captain James T Kirk in the original Star Trek series – is set to go into space for real.

The display of knot in Norfolk only happens at very high tide during autumn or early spring.

Ahead of COP26, Prince Charles speaks to the BBC about his personal action and decades of campaigning.

Tourists flock to California’s famous sequoia trees, but wildfires are threatening their existence.

Jennifer Manning-Ohren is turning her community into a highway to help the endangered creatures.

Ahead of COP26, Ros Atkins looks at what the world’s biggest emitters are doing to tackle climate change.

The clean-up continues and the cause is still unknown after an oil spill in California.

Dr Stephan Spiekman explains what we know about the new species, which lived over 200 million years ago.

Fancy a job with great sea views? Meet the engineers who maintain turbines off Yorkshire’s coast.

Why putting in a pond could be the biggest DIY thing you can do to boost biodiversity.

Greta Thunberg, the climate activist, uses a speech to mock world leaders, including UK PM Boris Johnson.

Children will face up to three times as many extreme climate events as their grandparents, research suggests.

Wastewater plants release microplastics into the environment, but could manta rays hold the key to a solution?

Scientists warn that under the current melting rate even major glaciers are at risk of disappearing.

A seal is found swimming off the Northumberland coast with a rubber ring stuck around its neck.

Scientists describe a familiar armoured dinosaur but there’s something very unusual about it.

It is time for humanity to grow up on climate change, Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations in New York.

Cities like Sydney are already experiencing extremely hot days because of climate change.