Forest elephant numbers have decreased by 62% across central Africa over the last decade, according to the largest study of its kind.

Europe’s Herschel space telescope, which has helped transform our understanding of star birth and galaxy evolution, is expected to cease operations this month.

Campaigners say that internet giant Google needs to stop running adverts for ivory products in Japan.

The fossilised remains of a giant species of camel have been unearthed in Canada's High Arctic.

Scientists in the US publish the most detailed brain scans the world has ever seen as part of a project to understand how the organ works