India and Nepal are concerned about flash floods due to a lack of information from China about the state of glacial lakes and rivers in Tibet.

Yosemite National Park in California is to gain a 400-acre addition, its largest expansion in nearly 70 years.

Ancient DNA testing has for the first time confirmed the identity of the bacteria behind the Great Plague of London.

As many as 530 key infrastructure sites across England are vulnerable to flooding, according to a government review.

It is a famous, gentle giant of the African savannah, but the giraffe's genetics have only just revealed that there is not one species, but four.

UK researchers launch a global effort to source photos of threatened or destroyed cultural landmarks and compile them into 3D reconstructions, housed within an online map.