The NHS has announced a ban on accepting blood donations from anyone who has recently returned from a region of the world where the Zika virus is present.

Rising carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater are set to make fish drunk and disorientated, researchers have warned.

Conservationists are jubilant after the discovery of a massive group of lions in a remote Ethiopian national park, ending years of sharp decline in their numbers.

The January 2014 flooding in the south-west and north-east of England was due to man-made climate change, say scientists from Oxford University.

A second death due to Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone just a week after the WHO declared that the outbreak of the deadly disease across West Africa was over.

Dozens of people have died in Nigeria following a Lassa fever outbreak amid fears the death toll might increase.

E-cigarettes used mostly by adults could be popular among children if they are marketed with different flavours, says new research

The biggest ape to roam the Earth went extinct 100,000 years ago because the species was not able to adapt to just consuming savannah grass after climate change hit its favoured diet of forest frui

Despite reports suggesting e-cigarettes are just as bad for you as cigarettes, some scientists are actively denying the claim.

Given the close linkages between farming and weather, the climate change phenomenon is seriously affecting the mental health of farmers, suggests a new study conducted by an Australian scientist fr