A committee of MPs has urged the government to support plans for controversial shale gas drilling in the UK.

Trackers are being fitted to seabirds in the UK as part of a Europe-wide effort to better understand their behaviour.

Hundreds of passengers face UK flight cancellations because of an Icelandic volcanic eruption, but Ryanair objects to an order to ground services.

Tokyo Electric Power confirms there were extra partial meltdowns in fuel rods at its damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.

A revolutionary UK spaceplane concept is boosted by the conclusions of an important technical review that finds no obvious flaws in its design.

Tests given to an Amazonian tribe called the Mundurucu suggest that our intuitions about geometry are innate.

Peru's famous Machu Picchu site built on droppings

Up to 1,500 people objecting to controversial power and wind energy plans in mid Wales are expected at a protest in Cardiff Bay.