Over a quarter of the bird species in the UK are now of "highest conservation concern" according to a new report, Birds of Conservation Concern 4.

At least one person died as unrelenting rainfall battered the Arabian Peninsula. Schools were shut in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh and Qatar on 25 November as rain continued to fall.

Lying 4,700m above sea level on the Tibetan plateau is Namtso Lake. It is held as holy by the region's Tibetan population and every year thousands of pilgrims walk around its shores.

US scientists have bred a genetically modified mosquito that is incapable of spreading malaria to humans, according to reports.

The sun can erupt with flares more energetic than 30 billion times the yield of all nuclear weapons ever detonated.

Floods, heat waves, droughts, storms – all such natural disasters linked with climate change - have claimed as many as 606,000 lives in the past 20 years.

Ninety per cent of the disasters that occurred during the past decade have been caused by floods, storms, heat waves and other weather-related events, according to a UN report.

In what could be a set-back for the country, three new cases of Ebola have been reported more than two months after Liberia was declared free of the virus.

The epicentre of the quake lay about 300 kms from Kabul near Ashkasham in Afghanistan,according to the United States Geological Survey reported.

Following the recent launches of a communication satellite and astronomy observatory, India's space agency has announced an ambitious plan to increase satellite launches to around 12 a year, up fro