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Thousands of British homes will be paid to use electricity during the day for the first time, as wind and solar projects produce a...

Scottish fruit farmers have solved a recruitment crisis that could have resulted in this year's harvest of strawberries, blueberries and raspberries being destroyed. Several thousand...

I'm going to tell you the single worst story I've heard in these past few horrid months, a story that combines naked greed, political...

When coral scientist Zoe Richards left the Great Barrier Reef's Lizard Island in late January, she was feeling optimistic. Richards is a taxonomist. Since 2011...

Scientists are being forced to shut down or scale back fieldwork to assess the impact of last summer's devastating bushfires on threatened species amid...

One of the dive instructors points out two blacktip reef sharks circling a docile green turtle busy grazing on algae. Stingrays of various sizes,...

Tracey Williams has been a beachcomber for most of her life. It started with school holidays to north Cornwall in the 1960s, searching for...

Jack Millington walks past two huge industrial-style wooden tanning drums, through a door into the well-insulated drying room. Here, at 35C, amid the whirring...

The world's hazelnut supplies could be threatened by a stinkbug that has recently invaded Turkey, scientists have warned. The brown marmorated stinkbug, which is native...

As Australia's coronavirus outbreak continues - but with the cautious optimism of a slowing rate of infection - a lot of important news has...