The UK needs to consume less and share people around the country more equally in order to tackle its environmental problems, advisors say in their final report.

Local communities that agree to site an onshore windfarm will receive government-backed payment, under new plans.

A Japanese spider crab believed to be the biggest seen in Britain is on show at a sea life centre in Weymouth.

US oil giant Chevron says it will appeal against an Ecuador fine of $8.6bn, amid a decades-long row over pollution in the country's Amazon region.

Japan suspends its annual Antarctic whale hunt after activists from a US-based environmental group chase the mother ship.

A spider that preys on the malaria-carrying mosquito is attracted to the odour of people's smelly socks, say scientists.

Chimpanzees produce 200 times more sperm than the world's largest primates, scientists reveal.

The Sun has unleashed its strongest flare in four years, observers say.