ENVIRONMENT

All cars, trucks, vans and buses must be electric vehicles in three years time. Anyone caught driving a non-electric car will be fined £60.

Scientists found that every year around 43kg of gold and 3,000kg of silver end up in Swiss sewers.

Aerial photos show enormous scale of devastation, with block after block obliterated, leaving smouldering piles of ash dotted by brick chimneys and the skeletons of burnt-out cars.

The gap, measuring around 80,000km2 at the largest, was spotted in the frozen ice of Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

One of the main drawbacks of renewable energy is its variability, but storing the electricity generated in batteries is prohibitively expensive with current technology.

Desperate family members are turning to social media as hundreds go missing in US due to widespread fires.

It only takes a few decades for the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park to fill with magma. When it erupts, it could cover much of the US in ash.

Authorities at the Bwabwata National Park suspect the death toll will go up as it is possible that some of the carcasses were eaten by crocodiles.

At least four wineries suffered "total or very significant losses," and at least nine reported damage to their winery, outbuildings or surrounding vineyards.

"Using common sense and high-quality technology, we have developed a farm where... the environment is spared as much as possible."

IBTimes UK shares portraits and stories of survivors living in small towns near the epicentre of the earthquake that rocked Mexico on 19 September, killing at least 369 people.

'Snowball Earth' is a hypothesis scientists use to describe a time when the entire surface of the planet was frozen.

Fifteen wildfires broke out almost simultaneously in Northern California, destroying homes, wineries and hotels and trailer parks. Seven died in Sonoma County. Two died in Napa County and one in Mendocino County. Death toll is expected to rise.

Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott has told London think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) that climate change 'is probably doing good'.

Modifying corn could potentially benefit millions of people in low-income countries, who depend on it as a staple.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt announced that he would sign a rule on 10 October withdrawing the plan aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.

Tropical storm brought powerful winds and severe flooding to the southern US states after Nate landed near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Hurricane caused serious flooding in southern US states but weakened on Sunday and was downgraded to a tropical storm.

The latest Atlantic hurricane is expected to make landfall on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend.

Tesla CEO and real-life Iron Man wants to save Puerto Rico's broken energy network with his own solar power grid.

Scientists have found a way to predict when Old Faithful will blow its top, sending steam up to 180 feet into the air.

Neonicotinoids contaminate the majority of honey in the world. Almost half of all honey samples contained more than one neonicotinoid.

As the giant iceberg keeps moving away from Antarctica, it is estimated to reveal 2,240sq miles (5,800sq km) of seafloor with a hidden ecosystem.

The technique could bring an economy based on hydrogen fuels - which only emit water - a step closer to reality.

In recent decades there has been less and less rain in central India – but the rain that does fall is coming down in increasingly extreme storms.

Since the break happened in July, Nasa had to rely solely on thermal images and radar-based data to observe the break and watch the motion of ice.

Beaches are leaching highly radioactive caesium.

Zealandia is believed to have broken off from Australia and Antarctica around 80 million years ago.

The week's best photos, from Rohingya refugees and Mexico City earthquake, to Invictus Games, battle for Raqqa and Take a Knee protests.