The climate secrets of the ocean's deepest spot - the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific Ocean - begin to be unlocked by scientists.

The UK government should put a moratorium on shale gas operations until the environmental implications are fully understood, a report says.

A telescope in the back of a modified 747 jet has snapped images of the Orion Nebula at a colour of light no other observatory in the world can see.

Reintroduced beavers construct ideal habitats for bats, new research reveals.

The extent to which Queensland's soils became saturated with water as the Australian state was deluged with rain is evident in some novel satellite imagery.

Maps of the grape genome can provide wine-growers with the new varieties they will need to deal with disease and regulations, a study suggests.

Researchers in the US say they have uncovered tentative evidence of a genetic component to friendship.

A case of whisky which spent more than a hundred years buried in the Antarctic returns to Scotland.