The National Trust launches its "most ambitious" Peak District conservation project, in an attempt to repair decades of damage to High Peak Moors.

Anger spreads faster online than other emotions such as joy, an analysis of the Chinese social network Weibo reveals.

A new genus of rodent is found in the remote forests of Indonesia's Moluccas islands, where Wallace developed his theory of evolution.

The outgoing government in Norway buries much-vaunted plans to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground amid mounting costs and delays.

Sea-ice extent in the Arctic appears to have reached its yearly Summer minimum, scientists report - a coverage of 5.10 million sq km.