Parks, lakes, forests and wildlife are worth billions of pounds to the UK economy, says a major report that could change planning policy.

The mystery of how penguins stay warm while they huddle has been revealed with time lapse footage.

The government has revealed more details of its Green Deal scheme to help people pay for home insulation and other energy saving measures.

An orphaned bear cub which has charmed Slovenia with its antics since being adopted by a family faces removal to a wildlife shelter.

An aircraft surveys a great swathe of East Antarctica, to reveal the shape of the bedrock buried kilometres under the ice.

Worms are found living at depths in the Earth where it was previously thought animals could not survive.

The E. coli outbreak in Germany is a new form of the bacterium, researchers and public health experts believe.

Greenpeace campaigners who scaled a drilling vessel off Greenland in a bid to stop work have been removed.