Scientists believe a 100-kilometre-long curtain moored to the bed of the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere.

Understanding why some animals are more susceptible to the disease could lead to improved screening for humans.

Harvests that form a vital element of the diets of 4.5 billion people are being devastated by global heating. Now research has found a key to create a heat-resistant variety.

Julia Davies, a lawyer turned activist, is helping wildlife groups to buy up land — and fight back against Britain’s biodiversity crisis.

Royal Swedish Academy of Science report says steps to address climate change will be hard to enforce if they continue to suffer targeted attacks in social media

A leaked draft of a report on climate change and land use, which is now being debated in Geneva by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), states that it will be impossible to keep global temperatures at safe levels unless there is also a transformation in the way the world produces food and manages land.