Climate researcher Jeff Goodell explains how climate change is impacting people’s lifestyles, especially during summer months, and what communities can do to combat the risks of excessive heat.
Contest condemned by animal rights groups sees children and adults hunt cats, which threaten native wildlife
Scientists have been researching the best method for killing spotted lanternflies, and they may have gotten some new leads this year through the insects' attraction to vibrations.
It's hard to say what is the most dangerous animal in the world; you're not comparing apples to apples. But when it comes dangerous, these four top the list.
The fire at Anglo American’s Grosvenor coalmine in Moranbah broke out after methane ignited
The grey skies are going and sunny weather is about to roll in - but temperatures are set to vary wildly around the country...
Two osprey chicks are to be rehomed from Scotland to Spain amid concern over their father's plummeting hunting performance. The Woodland Trust Scotland has taken action at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest in response to the reduced fish catches by dad Louis in recent weeks. George Anderson, Woodland Trust spokesperson, said the conservation charity's default position is normally not to intervene in the ospreys' lives and let nature take its course.
At least six people have died and further fatalities ‘remains a grim reality’
Radiation blast can be thousands of times stronger than anything recorded with modern instruments, scientists say
Hundreds of tourists were evacuated from the island of Kos overnight
Ukraine launched a drone attack on Tuesday night, targeting the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, where Moscow’s once-revered Black Sea Fleet is based after it was forced to abandon its Crimean base in Sevastopol.
Temperatures could exceed 40C in some areas
There have been reports of 27C temperatures during a mini heatwave in the UK in the middle of this month.
Freya, a 6-month-old lion cub rescued from the wildlife trade in Lebanon, poked a curious nose out of her transport crate and sniffed the air. Satisfied, she took her first cautious steps in her new forever home in a sanctuary in South Africa. Freya's relocation to the Drakenstein Lion Park is only a partial success story.
Moscow and the surrounding region sweltered Wednesday as temperatures soared to levels unseen in over a century, with the state weather monitor warning of dangerously hot nights. The heatwave has hit the Moscow region as well as the southern and western Kursk, Belgorod and Voronezh regions. bur/fg
Hurricane Beryl has intensified into a category 5 storm as it barrels towards Jamaica after wreaking havoc across the eastern Caribbean.
Britain’s march of the wind turbines is about to resume. Ten years after the rural backlash that forced David Cameron’s government to cancel onshore wind developments, Ed Miliband is planning to do battle in the shires once again.
The findings suggest they are able to push the apparent limits of what giant land animals can do.
The UK has seen a considerable decrease in temperatures across the country compared to the previous week.
Most airports try and keep their runways clear of birds, but one island air terminal is flipping the script to give small fledglings a chance and boost a declining population of rare birds.
Britain is set to swelter in a scorching 28C heatwave later this month, with new weather maps showing exactly when the mercury will soar in the UK and blast away any chance of rain
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