MPs call for urgent government action to determine how many primates are being kept as pets across the UK.

Scientists hope UK-wide bee survey creates a buzz

Grants designed to protect the countryside may be controversially switched to pay England's farmers to grow beans and peas.

Two distinct populations of grey wolves have been identified on the central coast of British Columbia in Canada, a study reveals.

Scientists say that culling a small number of badgers risks increasing the spread of TB infection to cattle.

A computer program called Eugene Goostman, which simulates a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, is said to have passed the Turing test at an event organised by the University of Reading.

Scientists create new strains of malaria mosquitoes that produce 95% male offspring, and can drive a rapid population crash in the laboratory.

The Chilean government has rejected a huge hydro-electric project in a beautiful part of Patagonia, in the south of the country.