Climate 'hockey stick' The results confirm the warming trend seen by other groups using different methods

Two new areas of marine protection off the coastline of Northern Ireland have been announced.

Despite having protected status, the biodiversity in a large number of tropical forests is still continuing to decline, a study has suggested.

The subsidy for onshore wind energy generation is to be cut by 10%, the government has announced.

The Treasury is thought to have favoured a larger cut of up to 25%.

The EU should vow tougher action on climate change to maintain political leadership, says a committee of MPs.

A group of specialists is in Madagascar - the only place where lemurs are found in the wild - to systematically assess the animals and decide where they sit on the Red List of Threatened Species.

Thousands of leatherback turtle eggs and hatchlings have been crushed by bulldozers on Trinidad's northern coast, conservationists say.

The latest spacecraft in Europe's long-running Meteosat series has just gone into orbit on an Ariane rocket.

UK homes are consuming much more electricity than previously estimated, a report described as the most detailed of its kind has suggested.

The American mountain lion or cougar is now re-populating parts of the US, scientists say.

Their numbers had plummeted in the last 100 years because of hunting and a lack of prey.