environment

Massive abyss emerges yards from local farmer's house, prompting fears of a further collapse.

Each recycled smartphone can protect 40 square miles of forest containing elephants, chimpanzees and gorillas.

A shower of 300-600 mile wide asteroids helped form early Earth's geology says new report.

West Midlands Sainsbury's store becomes first UK retail outlet to come off National Grid.

'Mega-Cities' to grow even bigger, posing unprecedented challenges to environment

Greenpeace supporters brand Pascal Husting's European commute as 'unbelievable'

A World Bank and ClimateWorks Foundation believe there's huge economic benefit to energy efficiency.

University Professor Stuart Pimm claims mass extinctions inevitable unless human race changes course.

ZenRobotics has developed the first ever recycling process controlled and carried out by artificially intelligent robots

Academic paper suggests shale gas production would reduce coal use and carbon emissions.

New method for transforming textiles into solar cells could be used to power smartwatches and other wearable devices

The UK is set for a £500m investment in a bid to bolster the green car industry.

Green energy is generating popularity in the UK, as Good Energy's latest results show

Hundreds of human-sized figures made out of rubbish go on show in Israel.

It is thought that windfarms have a negative effect on house prices, but is this the case?

Tigers, rhinos, elephants and orang-utans now protected 'by Islamic edict'

Developer pulls out of expanding world's biggest windfarm because environmental study will take too long

Two skiers missing and three injured after avalanche near Aspen, Colorado.

The proposed plant will be the size of Manhattan and be near Sambhar Salt Lake in Rajasthan.

Activists chain themselves to fishing boats to stop Western Australia's 'catch-and-kill' policy.

Countries all over the world are adopting ingenious solutions to the growing problem of flood water.

A living coral reef has been discovered near Cape Desolation in Greenland.

The combination of animals found in western Mongolia and southern Russia are similar to glacial communities.

Biologists' top finds of previously unknown species discovered in recent years.

A fleet of wireless charging electric buses launches in Milton Keynes as part of five year trial.

Group of MPs warned ministers must outline how further cuts to Defra will impact agencies.

Conservation group Rhino Ark said Kenyan rhinos require urgent protection from illegal poaching.

Polar bears' birthday marked on 29 December as breeding season begins.

Switch to 'green' bullets will save the lives of thousands of animals a year.

US scientists claim chemicals used in fracking linked to gender realignment.