About 16,000 houses in England were flooded during the wettest December in a century, Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss has told MPs.

Zimbabwe is to increase the export of wildlife, including elephants, to China, the environment minister says.

Increasing agricultural yields coupled with tree planting and wetland restoration could help the UK farming industry to cut its carbon footprint

Long-standing weather records have been smashed by a stormy, yet warm December, the Met Office's early figures suggest.

They have existed for more than 50 million years , but now Africa's rhino population is on the verge of disappearing.

The US space agency Nasa has warned that the effects of the current El Nino weather phenomenon could be as bad as those of 1998, the strongest on record.

El Nino has contributed to making 2015 the warmest year on record and will continue to influence in 2016

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the end of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, two years after the epidemic began there.

Guinea is to be declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO), two years after the epidemic began there.

Much of Zambia has been plunged into darkness by a power cut, the country's Energy Minister Dora Siliya has said.