The UK's nuclear waste needs a permanent home - but finding a community willing to take it is tricky.

New legislation gives regulators more powers to tackle water pollution in England and Wales.

A new expedition finds that a large part of the railing at the ship's front has fallen away.

Efforts to stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis will now focus on vaccinating badgers not killing them.

A leading conservation group wants the government to give the go-ahead to bringing back beavers in the wild.

The Queen guitarist has led a 10-year study to combat bovine TB spread and help end badger culling.

Smoke from wildfires in north America has brought a "vivid" hue to skies above Britain ahead of a rare lunar phenomenon.

British forces are about to get their first dedicated surveillance and reconnaissance satellite.

The islands could reveal why animal life first emerged on our planet after its biggest ever freeze.

A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the Moon setting into streams of aurora.

Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.

Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust.

The highest sea temperatures in 400 years could threaten the reef's survival, say scientists.

Thames Water, Northumbrian Water and Yorkshire Water face fines for repeated sewage leaks.

A frozen block of ice far bigger than Greater London is captured in a vast pool of rotating water.

Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.

The creature, the size of a poppy seed, dates back 520 million years and is almost perfectly preserved.

The government says its budget to support a renewable energy auction will rise 50%.

Scientists say they have new evidence that complex life on Earth began much earlier than previously believed.

The increase in the number of 'very hot days' of 30C or more has also been dramatic.