ENVIRONMENT

Nasa has estimated the impact of atmospheric rivers on global climate, including rain, floods and droughts.

Immanuel Jotham Nov 01, 2017

The asteroid impact is believed to have caused rapid and extreme climate change, devastating the Earth's plant life and marine biosphere.

India Ashok Nov 01, 2017

London, Manchester and Glasgow all have lower air quality lower than the minimum set by the World Health Organisation.

James Hetherington Oct 31, 2017

Fresh industry assessment points to a significant decline in the cost of solar and wind power projects.

Gaurav Sharma Oct 31, 2017

The impacts are disproportionately felt by vulnerable communities in low and middle income countries, according to a report compiled by a collaboration of 26 leading institutions.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 30, 2017

Concentrations are now at their highest for 800,000 years, which could lead to "severe ecological and economic disruptions", according to a new report.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 30, 2017

Is it possible to live an ordinary life, hold down a job, travel, shop and eat in London without throwing away any plastic?

Martha Henriques Oct 30, 2017

The week's best news and sports photos, from autumn and Halloween to the King of Thailand's funeral and the end of the sieges of Raqqa and Marawi.

David Sim Oct 27, 2017

Previous eruptions triggered a volcanic winter that lowered global temperatures by 6 degrees Celsius, halting a period of natural global warming.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 26, 2017

New research has re-examined the skull, which was first discovered 12 km inland from Papua New Guinea's north coast in 1929.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 25, 2017

Sir David Attenborough has called on people to cut down on their use of plastic. These nine items show how plastic-filled our lives are, and how easy it is to cut down on the material.

Kashmira Gander Oct 25, 2017

The BBC admits it breached its own editorial standards when Lord Lawson was allowed to express a falsehood about climate change on the Today programme without being challenged.

Josh Robbins Oct 24, 2017

From misty lochs and chalk cliffs to snow-covered mountains and autumnal woods, Landscape Photographer of the Year book captures the splendour of Britain's rural and urban landscapes, from the Outer Hebrides to the white cliffs of Dover.

David Sim Oct 24, 2017

The UK is bracing for gale-force winds and potential flooding as Storm Brian approaches, with gusts of up to 70mph expected in parts of the country.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 21, 2017

The map shows Earth's former surface, which has been pushed deep into our planet's core. The "dead" tectonic plates go down up to nearly 3,000 Kms.

India Ashok Oct 21, 2017

The week's best photojournalism, from the battles for Raqqa and Kirkuk, to forest fires in Portugal and Spain and Storm Ophelia's yellow skies over Britain.

David Sim Oct 20, 2017

Lake Baikal, the world's deepest inland sea and a major international tourist attraction, is being crippled by a series of mysterious ecological attacks, say experts.

Roger Baird Oct 19, 2017

The deep ocean waters around Antarctica have been disturbed. Climate change since industrialisation is thought to be causing the break up of Antarctica's ice sheets.

Sev Kender Oct 19, 2017

Bees, butterflies, moths and beetles are on the decline in Europe. Flying insects are essential pollinators for food security and agriculture.

Martha Henriques Oct 18, 2017

In 2006, large quantities of boiling mud began pouring out of vents in the ground at various sites across the Indonesian island of Java, causing thousands to flee.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 18, 2017

'Aquamation' is an eco-friendly method of corpse disposal that dissolves the whole body, resulting in a relatively harmless water solution which can be returned to the Earth.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 17, 2017

Over 4,000 seed samples came from gene banks in Columbia and Peru and include varieties of wheat, beans, potato and more.

India Ashok Oct 17, 2017

Ferocious wildfires have killed at least 36 people in Portugal, including a one-month-old baby, and at least three in Spain.

David Sim Oct 17, 2017

This year's most powerful Atlantic hurricanes – Harvey, Irma and Maria – caused so much damage that 2017 will almost certainly prove to be the costliest hurricane season on record.

David Sim Oct 16, 2017

Nasa found that heat and droughts in the tropical regions of Africa, Indonesia and South America are responsible for the surge in the release of atmospheric CO2.

Immanuel Jotham Oct 16, 2017

Hurricane Ophelia's winds fanned more than 140 wildfires across northern Spain and Portugal, killing three in Galicia and six in Portugal.

David Sim Oct 16, 2017

Oceans that contain clams and worms release 8 times more methane than those without, according to new research.

Aristos Georgiou Oct 13, 2017

The week's best news and sport photos, from California wildfires and Vietnam floods, to the battle for Raqqa, Kenya election protests and Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis.

David Sim Oct 13, 2017

Extensive sea ice formation in East Antarctica kill thousands of Adélie penguins – the second such devastation in four years.

Vasudevan Sridharan Oct 13, 2017