Dubai has constructed the first environment friendly mosque in a region which is among the worst polluters in the world

New recommendations on dealing with the residues of pesticides in food are expected to be made by the UN's food and health agencies.

Brazilian researchers release thousands of mosquitoes infected with a bacterium that suppresses Dengue fever into the environment in Rio de Janeiro.

Information from "citizen scientists" is becoming more and more vital for some research projects, scientists say.

World leaders are being asked to make bold pledges to address climate change at a one day summit in New York.

US economist and UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs has told the BBC he thinks governments are still not working hard enough to take care of climate change.

A rare skeleton of a woolly mammoth is set to be sold at auction in the UK in November with a guide price of £150,000 to £250,000

The presenter and physicist Brian Cox says he supports the idea that many universes can exist at the same time.

One of the biggest scientific claims of the year has received another set-back, putting the result of a bet between two significant physicists in jeopardy.

A material dubbed the darkest substance on earth is being used creatively by internationally acclaimed artist Sir Anish Kapoor.

Patricia Hewitson from Exmouth, Devon, unwittingly grew a 5ft (1,5m) tall cannabis plant from a pack of bird seeds - but her error was only revealed when she contacted a radio phone-in show.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and taxidermy experts have preserved Lonesome George, the last Pinta giant tortoise, who died in 2012 in the Galapagos Islands.

A project is under way calling for people with memories of the excavation if the Temple of Mithras to come forward to tell their stories and share their pictures of the event.

The famous experiment in child psychology from the the 1960s which became known as the marshmallow test has been updated by the experiment's inventor, Walter Mischel.

Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide.

Worldwide demonstrations ahead of a UN meeting in New York on how to reduce global carbon emissions attract hundreds of thousands of people, organisers say.

A SpaceX cargo ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Sunday, carrying the first 3D printer for astronauts in orbit.

A pair of three-week-old cheetah cubs are unveiled at San Diego Zoo's Safari Park.

Scientists have had the extremely rare chance to examine an intact colossal squid after it was accidentally caught in the Antarctic, as Mauricio Olmedo-Perez reports

The Hollywood actor, Leonardo diCaprio, has been appointed as a United Nations representative on climate change.