Researchers have found the strongest evidence yet that climate change rather than humans was the main factor that drove the woolly mammoth to extinction.

Microscopic footage reveals how horsetail plant spores move around on their moisture sensitive legs by walking and jumping.

Rare sand lizards have been released on sand dunes in North Wales in a bid to revive ailing populations.

Microscopic footage reveals how horsetail plant spores move around on moisture-sensitive legs by walking and jumping.

The European Space Agency is preparing for the fiery fall to Earth of its "beautiful" Goce gravity-mapping satellite - the first uncontrolled re-entry of an Esa spacecraft in more than 25 years.

The volume of sea ice in the Arctic hit a new low this past winter, according to observations from the European Space Agency's Cryosat mission.

A huge water source has been discovered in the arid Turkana region of northern Kenya, which could supply the country for 70 years, the government says.

European researchers begin a three-year project to create an exoskeleton designed to be worn by factory workers.