An international team says the number of landslides in April's devastating Nepal-Ghorka earthquake was far lower than people had feared.

Europe's Cryosat mission is now monitoring the changing height of Greenland and its ice losses in unprecedented detail.

Cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors and not largely down to bad luck, a study by doctors in New York suggests.

The UK government says subsidies for small scale solar electricity panels on homes are to be cut, although by less than expected.

A new global temperature forecast from the UK's Met Office says that 2016 is likely to be even warmer than the record breaking 2015.

Nearly 1,500 badgers were killed this year as part of the government's cull, figures reveal.

New calculations show that our already sizeable water footprint is 18% bigger than previously recognised - at 10,700 cu km a year.