SCIENCE

As only about 60 vaquita porpoises survive today the ban is crucial to avoid extinction of the species.

Migaloo was spotted in Iluka in northern New South Wales and also off the Gold Coast in Queensland.

Earth's environment for first organisms living four billion years ago was very different to how it is today.

European countries dominate the height list; British men get the 31st spot.

The historic journey began on 9 March, 2015, with the aim of promoting clean energy.

Extrapolated data from a new survey suggests a third of solar industry jobs have been lost in the last 12 months.

Farmers in ancient Iran and the Levant were genetically diverse, suggesting they developed farming in parallel.

Thousands of homes near LA were evacuated wildfires raged in drought-parched canyons north of the city.

Five year drought in California means fires are spreading with ease say firefighters.

Hottest day ever recorded was 56.7C in Death Valley in 1913, but that figure is disputed.

Final leg of Solar Impulse flight could be most difficult, because it's too sunny

Shooting stars from Delta Aquarid meteor shower will light up night sky from end of July to mid-August.

The Chinese army has been deployed to rescue stranded villages and provide supplies

The large heath butterfly returns to Heysham Moss in Lancashire after 100 years.

STAE CEO Duncan McNair described the treatment he witnessed as "just so truly awful".

Archaeologist show settlements increased over 20 fold in later Middle Palaeolithic period.

Denarii coins were found hidden inside an ceramic vase dating back 2,500 years

City of London Corporation is creating conditions that will increase the snake population in Hampstead

Both the RSPCA and Dogs Trust said that dairy products can be difficult for dogs to digest.

Quartz crystals from Long Valley caldera reveal how gas powering supereruptions accumulates in just a year.

Archaeologists find traveller carried parasitic flatworm Chinese liver fluke 1,500km.

Scientists team up with Google to demonstrate one of the first real-world uses for quantum computers.

The 4,500 years old papyrus has just been displayed in public in Cairo Museum

Patches of ground on Bely Island bubbles underfoot in what is believed to be a newly recorded phenomenon.

Trump shares many values with You-Know-Who, study finds.

The more we learn about the Antikythera mechanism, the more complicated it becomes.

Heavy downpours cause havoc in Beijing and other parts of China, leading to some of the worst flooding in years

Rare double transit of planets allowed scientists to analyse two potentially habitable worlds.

Animal testing is cruel, unethical, expensive, and generally inapplicable to humans.