Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government defeats a climate change bill calling for CO2 emission cuts.

Deep underwater, scientists discover ancient forms of "living fossil" seaweed that could represent the earliest known green plants.

A collision between a Japanese whaling vessel and a high-tech protest boat off Antarctica was the fault of both captains, New Zealand investigators rule.

EU farm spending, worth nearly 60bn euros (£51bn) annually, should no longer be based on previous subsidy levels, the European Commission says.

Scientists think they can now explain the sequence of events deep inside the Earth that led to the Eyjafjallajokull eruptions on Iceland earlier this year.

Scientists at Idaho State University map out a new, active seismic fault in the US Rocky Mountains capable of unleashing a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

The first camera that can take pictures around a corner is shown off by US scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet originating from outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way.