The next Ice Age is due within 1,500 years, researchers calculate - but greenhouse gas emissions mean it will not happen then.

Australia is in "diplomatic discussions" over the fate of three anti-whaling activists who boarded a Japanese ship on Saturday night, officials say.

A Great Barrier Reef pearlfish is filmed by the BBC living inside a sea cucumber's bottom. Where are some of the other strange places that fish live?

People should have at least two days a week completely clear of alcohol, a group of MPs say.

A giant Galapagos tortoise believed extinct for 150 years probably still lives, say scientists who have found genetic traces of their existence.

Iran has begun medium-level uranium enrichment at a heavily fortified site near the holy city of Qom, the UN's nuclear watchdog says.

Researchers show off the largest map of dark matter ever assembled, detailing the mysterious material that makes up most of the Universe.