Scientists set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth's crust for the first time, testing theories about the make-up of the crust on the way down.

Prince Charles is to call for better protection of the world's forests at the UN climate conference in Paris.

Japanese whaling ships depart for the Antarctic hunt, after a one year pause, despite international opposition.

Prince Charles says forest protection is starting to be taken seriously at the UN climate conference in Paris, but too many companies are turning a blind eye

Attempts to keep global warming to 2 degrees will be wildly off course if all planned coal fire plants around the world are built.

Scientists find footprints - left by some of the biggest dinosaurs ever to have walked on Earth - in a bay on the Isle of Skye.

Scientists say they have fine tuned a gene editing method to make it safer and more accurate - vital if it is to be used in humans to cure inherited diseases or inborn errors.