A partnership bringing together scientists, the UN and landowners is set up to protect Mediterranean forests from threats, such as water scarcity and fires.

A leak of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports.

Attempts to reduce global temperatures by changing clouds' reflectivity may backfire, say researchers at the European Geosciences Union meeting.

The number of Falkland skuas has declined by almost half in just five years, a survey of the bird's largest breeding ground reveals.

Sir Richard Branson is already selling tickets to fly people to the edge of space and now he wants to voyage to the bottom of the deepest oceans.

A new study supported by conservation charity the John Muir Trust suggests wind farms produce under 10% of capacity for a third of the time.

Genetic tests for conditions such as cystic fibrosis should be available before people become pregnant, says the government's advisory body on genetics.

Workers in Japan start injecting nitrogen into one of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to prevent more hydrogen blasts.