MPs push for tougher EU action on climate change, but come under fire on whether a new UN deal is legally binding or voluntary.

Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted over an unusually large area this summer, Nasa says, describing it as an "extraordinary" phenomenon.

Scientists behind Team GB are working on genetic tests to understand why some athletes are prone to injury, BBC's Newsnight has learned.

The subsidy for onshore wind energy generation is to be cut by 10%, the energy secretary says, less than some members of the government had called for.

The largest-ever experiment in space has reported the collection of some 18 billion "cosmic ray" events that may help unravel the Universe's mysteries.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez unveils a 3-D reconstruction of the face of Simon Bolivar, the South American liberation hero who died in 1830.

Two of the earliest rodents, including the earliest chinchilla, are discovered in Chile

A rift in the Antarctic bed rock as deep as the Grand Canyon is increasing ice melt from the continent, researchers say.