Many threatened species in developing countries are entirely dependent on agricultural land for their survival, according to scientists.

Scientists produce the most detailed map yet of Antarctica's underbelly - its rock bed.

Environmental activists break into a French nuclear power station, to highlight the "vulnerability" of atomic sites in France.

Those who like a lie-in now have an excuse, as researchers reveal it is at least partly down to their genes.

Two giant pandas are settling in "very well" to their new home at Edinburgh Zoo but are jet lagged, officials confirm.

US astronomers have discovered the biggest supermassive black holes known to science.

Engineers have tested the use of an alternative to silicon that promises thinner, flexible computer chips that need less power.

Astronomers confirm the existence of an Earth-like world orbiting a star like our Sun in its "habitable zone" - at a balmy 22C.