For the first time since 1969, a new Antarctic atlas catalogues the 9,000-plus species that make their home in the Southern Ocean.

Iceland lowers the warning level to aviation from the Bardarbunga volcano, but say an eruption "cannot be excluded".

Researchers say they have discovered more than 500 bubbling methane vents on the seafloor off the US east coast.

A whole functional organ has been grown from scratch inside an animal for the first time, say researchers in Scotland.