EU commissioners meet today to agree an energy savings target for 2030 amid serious disagreement about how ambitious it should be.

Zoo team gives an enormous reticulated python its annual check-up, including using ultrasound to scan its heart.

The UN's seabed authority issues exploration licences that accelerate a search for valuable minerals on the ocean floor.

Zoologists find that bats use the pattern of polarised light in the sky at sunset to help them navigate.

Part of a city in north-west China is sealed off and dozens of people placed in quarantine after a man died of bubonic plague, state media say.

Members of the European Union will have to boost their energy efficiency by 30% by 2030 according to Commission.

Changes in the Antarctic climate are showing up in the fur seal population, say scientists who have studied the animals for 30 years on the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia.

A crew of sailors is embarking on a pioneering citizen science expedition through the Northwest Passage between Canada and Greenland.