A T-shaped design scoops a £5,000 prize in a competition to find the next generation of electricity pylons for the UK.

Nature groups say ministers are failing to keep their wildlife pledges, claiming just two out of 16 made by the government have been honoured.

Scientists discover stromatolites more than 3 billion years old in Northern Ireland's heritage site.

Highly radioactive material found on a Fife beach is giving "cause for concern", according to environmental watchdogs.

A £1.6m laboratory in Cardiff aims to boost aircraft safety by analysing the effects of lightning strikes on materials used.

Tiny bubbles beneath the blubber of beached dolphins suggest marine mammals can stand bubbles that give humans the bends, scientists find.

Researchers find that tiny tubes of carbon bound together in a "yarn" rotate like muscles - but with a thousands of times more twist than ever seen before.

Salvage teams prepare to pump fuel from the cracked cargo ship Rena, listing badly off the New Zealand coast, amid fears it could soon break up.