A UK-Indian team of scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of limbless amphibian.

US tycoon Donald Trump has warned Scotland will be in "serious trouble" if it continues to promote wind farms.

Brazil's Congress delays a final vote on controversial changes to the country's forest code which enviromentalists say will spur Amazon deforestation.

A former BP engineer is accused in the US of obstruction of justice over the 2010 Gulf oil spill - the first criminal charge in connection with the disaster.

Great tits are more likely to gang up against predators if neighbours they know are being threatened, say scientists.

The US space agency Nasa is testing a network of GPS sensors as a rapid-response measure of earthquake location and magnitude.

The German radar satellite TerraSAR-X is returning regular images of the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, to try to catch the birth of a giant berg.

Researchers go hunting for the source of the highest-energy particles we know of, and rule out one of the two presumed sources.