Air pollution is linked to an increased risk of developing an irregular heartbeat and blood clots in the lung, research suggests.

China's campaign to bulldoze mountains to create land to build on could cause extensive environmental problems, scientists say.

Four hundred legislators from 66 countries as diverse as China, Mongolia and Slovenia are taking part in a summit billed as offering a "new vision" for an international climate agreement.

Doctors believe they have found the first evidence that a new deadly virus in the Middle East has been transmitted from a camel to people.

UK satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat announces a nine-figure investment to boost wifi connections for airline passengers across the EU.

A giant new wave and tidal energy research facility - the first of its kind in the world - has opened at Edinburgh University.

An invisible barcode is being developed that can trace explosives, drugs and bank notes, scientists report.

Researchers find evidence of the world that crashed into Earth billions of years ago to form the Moon.