The UN secretary general asks the world’s leading science academies to review the UN’s climate science body.

EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.

The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.

Environmentalists and the EU lock horns over biofuels

The science spokesmen of the three main political parties cross swords on the issue of UK research funding.

Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists.

The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned.

A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers.

Research shows some EU countries “import” about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries.

Skynet 5, the UK’s single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces.