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More than 100 Conservatives are among MPs who have written to the prime minister calling on him to slash subsidies for onshore wind turbines.

Prince Charles says there are reasons to be optimistic about the state of the world's oceans, but it is "critically urgent" to tackle overfishing.

Astronomers at the Paranal observatory combine four telescope to create the world's largest virtual device with a 130m-mirror.

The Hubble space telescope captures an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit China next week to discuss Canada's oil products, after the US blocked a key pipeline.

The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.

About 100 people gather in Enniskillen to demonstrate against the use of fracking to extract gas from shale rock in County Fermanagh.

A work of abstract expressionism by a chimp and a still life of a flower by an elephant are part of a new exhibition in London of artworks created by animals.

Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists.

The German-UK consortium building the operational spacecraft for Europe's Galileo sat-nav system wins a contract to provide an additional eight units.