How reducing the methane from cows is helping to fight climate change

The UK should focus on making fuel from chip fat, whiskey dregs and forest waste and not from crops like wheat

A gannet bonanza is confirmed on the towering cliffs of Yorkshire by research from the RSPB.

Polish logging in one of Europe's last remaining primeval forests is to go to the EU's top court.

At least 200 campaigners in 24 countries were killed in 2016, according to a new report from Global Witness.

A Nasa probe returns the most detailed pictures ever of one of the Solar System's biggest storms.

Home Office annual figures show that animal experiments in the UK fell by 5% in 2016.

Which creature is taking the place of Dippy the dinosaur?

Move over Dippy - Earth's biggest animal is now the star attraction at the Natural History Museum.

Images and a short film are inserted into bacteria DNA and recovered with 90% accuracy.

It is six months since an independent review backed a planned £1.3bn tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay.

The government is about to set out its position on membership of Europe's nuclear regulator after Brexit.

Why are scientists are worried about the open seas?

A block of ice a quarter the size of Wales calves from the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

New rules are urgently needed to protect the open seas, scientists warn.