Environmental News

British scientists who have set up a network of penguin-monitoring cameras in Antarctica are asking the public to help them carry out their research.

Two new studies confirm that multiple exploding stars, called supernovae, have showered the Earth with radiation within the last few million years.

Dr David Lowry (Letters, 5 April) presents a highly selective and misleading view of the recent Nuclear Threat Initiative report.

In 1913, poet Edward Thomas cycled from London to Somerset to “meet the spring”. The vivid account of his journey, In Pursuit of Spring, was published the following year. Thomas died on the western front in 1917.

UK researchers have built a small device that measures tiny fluctuations in gravity, and could be used to monitor volcanoes or search for oil.

Global sea levels could rise by more than double the current best estimate, according to a new analysis of climate change in Antarctica.

With the ice cover down to 14.52m sq km, scientists now believe the Arctic is locked onto a course of continually shrinking sea ice

From food to clothes, extreme weather events are affecting key industries. As we kick off a new series on extreme weather – tell us what we should cover

Where only a few weeks ago there were swathes of vivid purples, blues and pretty much any other colour you fancy, now there is just grey and white. Corals in the northern section of Australia’s vast Great Barrier Reef – a length of more than 1000km or so – have become the latest and most…

Free public transport offered as city remains shrouded in muddy brown smog and officials consider suspending industrial activity