The millions of tonnes of chicken feathers discarded each year could be used in plastics, researchers say in a report to the American Chemical Society meeting.

The French president calls for clear international standards on nuclear safety as the crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant continues.

Gertie the hen stops laying eggs and starts to strut and crows like a cockerel.

A bog near Stirling is declared the first UK reserve for the rare large heath butterfly.

Urban pigeons with dark feathers have stronger immune systems and are better able to fight off parasites, a study reveals.

Officials say residents near the Fukushima plant face a long-term evacuation, as Japan begins an intensive search for missing quake victims.

One of Britain's champion magnolia trees, a 24-metre high 'Diva' at Westonbirt arboretum, is providing one of its best flowering displays in decades.

Have a look at this amazing side effect from last year's Pakistan floods: trees completely cocooned in spiders' webs.