Improved cookstoves could improve the health of millions and reduce the impact of black carbon on glaciers.

Collective community-based rights could put the world's fisheries on a sustainable footing after decades of over-exploitation, an expert suggests

Getting young children to take an hours nap after lunch could help them with their learning by boosting brain power, a study suggests.

Thousands of DNA swabs taken from former prisoners who were jailed before 1994 may have to be destroyed, if judges rule against a police force later.

An ex-prisoner loses a legal challenge at the High Court against a request by police for him to provide DNA samples.

A UK team develops further its idea for a Mars “hopper” – a robot that can bound across the surface of the Red Planet.

The British Geological Survey celebrates a 40-year quest to map the chemical composition of the UK land surface.

Urban birds bred more successfully than their woodland cousins for the first time, during a cold and wet 2012, research shows.