The government will set out plans to reduce greenhouse gases and change the way energy is produced when it publishes its carbon budget.

A "plant clinic" scheme to improve food security in developing nations receives a £6.8m boost from the UK and Swiss governments.

A network of clinical trial centres launches in a bid to improve current poor survival rates for patients with blood cancers like lymphoma.

Scientists simulate the atmosphere of an exoplanet 20 light-years, suggesting it could host liquid water, clouds and rainfall - and possibly life.

The world's oldest panda, Ming Ming, dies in China at the age of 34, reports say.

What to do with remaining stocks of this deadly, eradicated virus

Farmers in eastern China are left perplexed after their watermelon crops began to explode one by one, resulting in the loss of acres of fruit.

Land crabs unique to Hawaii, able to travel huge distances inland, were wiped out by the first human colonists, scientists deduce.