Research from The Health Foundation shows the UK is experiencing a drop in its healthy life expectancy, whereas many comparable countries are seeing improvements ...

Warmer ocean temperatures are causing melting in Antarctica's ice shelves, posing an overlooked threat to global coastlines ...

Nature must move onto the legislative agenda in the UK, as a matter of national security and economic resilience, argues Dr ...

Whatever the present incumbent of the White House might say, the race is on to electrify the world’s economy with green ...

El Niño is a natural climate pattern, but it does not land on a blank slate. It arrives in a world already divided by wealth, governance and geography. These divisions and the inequity they create are ...

From mountains to rivers and everything in between, test your knowledge of the Earth’s physical features in this geography quiz.

Pods of pilot whales and several Atlantic white-sided dolphins driven into shallow coastal waters and killed on shore ...

Three years in, Sudan's civil war has killed hundreds of thousands, displaced 14 million and collapsed a nation. So why does ...

New study from Oulu University reveals how responsive the Greenland ice sheet is to climate change – more so than models ...

New study shows how zinc from fossil fuel combustion is being transported on tiny aerosols to some of the most remote waters in the world ...

As climates warm and rodent populations shift, arenaviruses — a group of pathogens similar to hantavirus — could pose a ...

The Middle East runs on two liquids – oil made it wealthy; desalinated water made it habitable. The future of the Gulf states ...