A controversial plan to trap buzzards and destroy their nests to protect pheasant shoots has been abandoned by the government, the latest in a series of U-turns.

Fines for householders who make mistakes over putting their bins out for collection are being reduced from Wednesday.

Energy policy in the United Kingdom looks like a jam factory hit by a meteorite: a multicoloured pool of gloop studded with broken glass.

North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the US and South Korea following Pyongyang's recent rocket launch.

Perween Riaz, a housemaid and mother of five, moved into her two-room abode in Neelam Colony, one of several informal settlements in Karachi, in Sindh province, a year ago.

A wildfire in Gila national forest burned through more timber and brush lands as it forced the evacuation of residents living near a privately owned ghost town in south-western New Mexico, official

Map of timber value in the Amazon. Click for larger image and detailed caption provided by authors. Illustration: Sadia Ahmed and Robert Ewers, Imperial College London

Record growth over the last year pushed the UK green goods and services market past the £122bn mark, according to new government figures that reveal the low carbon economy now employs almost one mi

Even as drought persists in parts of Kenya's arid north, intense rains are claiming lives in other parts of the country – flooding slums in the capital Nairobi, sweeping away hikers in the Rift Val

The captain and the navigation officer of a container ship that smashed into a reef off a popular New Zealand holiday resort were jailed on Friday for causing the country's worst environmental disa

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