A £50,000 relief fund has been set up for householders worst affected by damaging flash floods which struck west Cumbria on Thursday.

A fifth of animals without backbones could be at risk of extinction, say scientists.

Almost 80% of the world's species are invertebrates, meaning they lack a spinal column.

Australia plans to link its carbon trading scheme with the EU's, enabling firms to use European permits from mid-2015 to emit carbon dioxide (CO2).

Underwater robots tasked with saving coral reefs are being developed at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.

The renewable energy companies competing for the £10m Saltire Prize will be announced by the Scottish government later.

A project to reintroduce sea eagles to the east coast of Scotland is due to end this week, with the release of six young birds from a secret location in Fife.

Shanghai is the most vulnerable major city in the world to serious flooding, a study suggests.

The EU and small island states have criticised the US for saying the target of keeping global warming below 2C should be removed from climate talks.

The way that even low levels of carbon monoxide can be fatal, by disrupting the heart's rhythm, has been unravelled by researchers in Leeds.

The US space agency has just landed a huge new robot rover on Mars.