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Environmental rules reviewed for small housebuilders

Ministers are considering how costs can be reduced for small firms to help them ...

Watch: Loose pigeons cause havoc on plane before take-off

A US flight was delayed after two birds ended up onboard the aircraft, baffling ...

'Our homes were taken for a road that was never built'

Three families speak of the "utter hell" of losing their homes to a road scheme ...

Cats distinguish owner's smell from stranger's, study f...

Scientists believe cats can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar humans ...

Glacier collapse buries most of Swiss village

Many homes in Blatten have been flattened after a large chunk of the Birch glaci...

German court rejects Peruvian farmer's landmark climate...

Saúl Luciano Lliuya believes energy giant RWE should be held responsible for mel...

Idyllic Swiss village stood for centuries - until a roa...

Nine million cubic metres of rock and ice came crashing down on Blatten after a ...

BBC Inside Science

We answer a selection of fascinating science questions, from Nikola Tesla to mic...

Planning change to make installing heat pump easier for...

The rule requiring planning permission if a heat pump is within 1m of a neighbou...

Sellafield could leak until 2050s, MPs warn

A report criticises the speed of decommissioning work at the UK's largest nuclea...

Failing water sector needs stronger regulation, says da...

The Water Commission finds "deep-rooted, systemic and interlocking failures" in ...

Warning after millions of bees escape overturned truck ...

Master bee-keepers are called to the scene after a truck containing 70,000 pound...

Astronauts in space for nine months didn't know if they...

Nasa pair Butch and Suni tell the BBC they feared being unable to get home when ...

UK's muddy saltmarshes vital to tackle climate change, ...

The UK's saltmarshes lock away climate-warming greenhouse gases in layers of mud...

Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigge...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species in...

Students’ mental health imperiled by $1 billion cuts to...

The Trump administration is cutting $1 billion in grants that support student me...