Mark Lynas' Six Degrees:...
The probe into the effectiveness of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) follows widespread concern over the status of its budget.
The council says its settlement from government has left it no choice but to find £80m of savings through to 2011.
Corries high in the Scottish mountains are to become "lookout posts" in an effort to better monitor the effects of climate change Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is leading the Snowbed Project...
A book about global warming has won this year's Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland's whaling, held under rules permitting subsistence hunting, has become too...
President George W Bush has called on Congress to end a 27-year ban on drilling for oil in US coastal waters, to reduce...
The body overseeing UK astronomy and physics is to commission an independent review of its operations.