Environment

While night-time lighting is good for parasitoid wasps, who find food far more easily, aphid populations are decimated by them as they are so much more visible.

Humour is universal - with no 'cultural barriers', say psychologists.

Scientists say that if CO2 levels continue to rise the consequences will be “catastrophic”

First mapping of global marine wilderness shows just how little remains

Photographer Hugh Brown uncovered those exposed to the harshest and most dangerous ways of making a living

The photos taken over five days in June show Brits watching the World Cup and making most of the scorching weather in the capital.

They say that a failure to act quickly and decisively will greatly increase the risk of 'unprecedented and irrevocable' species loss in the most diverse parts of the planet

The baked mud floor can be seen as water levels continue to fall in many of the Uk's reservoirs,

Suburban bumblebees are suffering from a toxic pesticide also found in pet flea treatments and many treated garden centre plants but banned from farms