SCIENCE

The mass tree-planting programme over the next decade will help restore wooded areas.

IBTimes UK looks at people who get recruited by cults and what tactics these groups employ to get followers.

A weasel caused a 'severe electrical perturbation' in the early hours of 29 April.

Gas is being expelled from the centre of two ultra-luminous x-ray sources in nearby galaxies.

More than 750 dogs roam across the hills at Territorio de Zaguates in Costa Rica.

Geological exploration of lake floor points to possible traces of the long-lost terraces.

Documents and analysis of historical shipwreck illustrates the tense time leading up to the cold war.

Twelve towering pyres of elephant tusks will be set alight in the largest single destruction of ivory in history.

Scientists are now developing technologies that allow us to perform telekinesis.

No immediate reports of damage from Pacific island nation after major quake.

Campaigners alleged that government's plans are inadequate and will take too long to meet EU air quality rules.

The cat battle took place in Russia's far east.

AI, supervolcanoes and pandemics all listed as potential catastrophic threats to mankind.

Half of farmed fish have deformed earbones, which reduces their hearing by up to 50%.

Stanford University's underwater robot remotely controlled to retrieve 17th century vase from a shipwreck.

3D prints of virtual recreations of items smashed by Islamic State militants to be displayed in New York.

Fossil of mother cradling a baby discovered by archaeologists in Taichung region of Taiwan.

Incredibly detailed images of jewel-like insects reveal the beautiful, surprising, and often downright bizarre sculptural forms of some of the tiniest creatures on Earth.

India launched its seventh and last navigation satellite IRNSS-1G on 28 April 2016.

Poor rainfall and low water availability for irrigation exacerbating already tough situation, UN says.

Technical problems led to failure for the site's first rocket launch.

Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens adopted different approaches to food depending on the climate.

Bone found in Morocco is first evidence hominins were food resource for large carnivores.

The US Strategic Command said it does not believe it was a man-made object.

Scientists discover a type of slime mould that displays 'an unmistakable form of learning'.

Tapirs are classed as endangered and their population continue to decrease around the world.

A giant penguin reaching up to 1.5m in height once roamed Australia

The dogs had been confined in their cages from birth and the farm is just one of thousands in the country.

Hugging increases stress and anxiety levels in dogs, new study reveals.