UK researchers are awarded an emergency grant to track and predict a vast iceberg that could enter Southern Ocean shipping lanes.

The skull of a four million-year-old big cat resembling a modern snow leopard has been found in the Himalayas, evidence that big cats first evolved in Asia not Africa.

Welfare standards are on average higher in laying hens kept in new-style cages than in free range flocks, according to a leading animal welfare expert.

Provisional figures from the World Meteorological Organization show 2013 to be one of the hottest on record.

Minutes of the meeting giving the go-ahead to a controversial extension of the badger cull reveal deep unease among several board members about the decision.