Ancient remains uncovered in Ukraine represent some of the oldest evidence of modern people in Europe, experts say.

Funding from Europe worth more than £400m to promote wildlife on farmland in the UK could be about to be stopped, conservationists warn.

Ants bring a fellow worker to help carry food that is too large to handle alone, say scientists.

Researchers show that minuscule hairs on bats' wings are sensitive to airflow direction, and that removing them changes bats' flight patterns.

The UK science team leading Europe's Cryosat mission produces its first map of sea-ice thickness across the entire Arctic Ocean basin.

Australia's two major airports in Sydney and Melbourne face up to 48 hours of disruption as the ash cloud from a Chilean volcano hits again.

A young emperor penguin takes a wrong turn from the Antarctic and arrives on a New Zealand beach, said to be the first such visit since 1967.

A court in Chile suspends construction work on a dam in the Aysen region of Patagonia, following objections by environmentalists.