The UK population must be encouraged to eat less meat "over time" in an effort to make the global food supply more sustainable, MPs say.

New analysis of teeth from extinct fossils finds that our forbearers expanded their diets about 3.5 million years ago.

A dig on land destined for a new school in Gwynedd finds a Roman construction camp and an early medieval cemetery.

The Dominican government says a project by mining giant Glencore Xstrata to explore for nickel in tropical forest would damage the environment.

A new UN report on the Syrian conflict says there are "reasonable grounds" to believe that chemical weapons have been used.

Plans are put forward to vaccinate badgers in west Cornwall to prevent them catching TB and passing it on to cows, an MP says.

The government is facing a potential rebellion from MPs over calls for a specific carbon reduction target for the energy industry by 2030.

The radiation dose someone would get from eating tuna tainted with pollution from Fukushima is far below the levels that should cause health concern, scientists say.