Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed some of the articles in the controversial forest code, which environmentalists say could speed up deforestation.
The latest round of UN climate talks makes little progress against a "coalition of the unwilling", observers say.
The first commercial cargo ship to visit the space station is attached to the orbiting laboratory by a robotic arm.
The Square Kilometre Array - one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century - will be hosted by both Africa and Australasia.
Researchers excavating a cave in Germany identify what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world.
A grid of 25,000 "invisibility cloaks" shows how to slow light down and spread out its constituent colours in an advance dubbed "trapping a rainbow".
Two officers of the container ship that ran aground off New Zealand causing its worst maritime spill are jailed for seven months.
New evidence from carbon in meteorites suggests that the basic building blocks of life are present on Mars, a study in Science journal says.
It may be possible to make a new form of male contraceptive after scientists in Edinburgh find a critical gene for the production of healthy sperm.
Once rare brown argus butterflies have been moving north due to a pattern of hot summers, say researchers.
Science minister David Willetts outlines the governments high-tech industrial strategy and announces £250m in funding for research institutes across the UK
The government delays the reduction in the subsidies on offer to homeowners who install solar panels to generate electricity.
Scotland Yard has equipped its officers with mobile fingerprint scanners to identify suspects while on the streets.
Conservationists in the Philippines express outrage over what they say is a lenient punishment for a farmer who shot and ate a rare eagle.
Radiation levels in most of Japan are below cancer-causing levels a year after the Fukushima plant accident, a World Health Organisation report says.
Archaeologists are to exhume and analyse human bones found under a prehistoric monument in Pembrokeshire recently identified as the cap on a burial site.
How a giant touchscreen is teaching surgeons
Conservationists condemn a plan they say would allow buzzard nests to be destroyed and the birds to be captured, to protect pheasant shoots.
Care must be taken not to spread deep-sea creatures around the world during exploration of the remote ocean floor, scientists caution.
A sensory organ discovered in the jaw of the worlds largest whales explains how the animals open their huge mouths so quickly, say scientists.
A minister in Ivory Coast is sacked over his alleged role in the disappearance of millions of dollars meant for the victims of a toxic waste dumping scandal.
An ancient creature thought to be the first to step on land could not have walked on four legs, 3D computer modelling shows.
The search firms chairman announces funds to place new computer science teachers in English schools.
The biggest environmental summit for a decade needs to deliver meaningful progress on global food security sustainable agriculture, say researchers.
Chimps and orangutans really do have "personalities like people", new research says
Researchers find that ground-dwelling invertebrates such as harvestmen and beetles preferentially live near street lights, even during the day.
Scientists in Israel say they have managed to turn patients own skin cells into heart muscle in the lab.
A Peruvian minister denies claims that explosions used in oil exploration are to blame for the deaths of hundreds of dolphins.
The inventor of the television remote control, Eugene Polley, dies of natural causes, aged 96, in a Chicago hospital.
The head of Nasa has hailed a "new era" in exploration after the launch of the first cargo delivery to the space station by a private company.
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