The British-based land speed record team is heading to Northern Cape to conduct high-speed trials.

The patterns of warm and cold years in Britain are a clear signal of climate change, say scientists.

A southern white rhino has given birth after artificial insemination, raising hopes for the northern white rhino population.

Wildlife photographer Chase Dekker took the photos while whale watching in California.

Corrupt officials are forging documents to allow the wood to leave the country, environmentalists say.

Voracious Arion vulgaris slugs have spread across Europe from Spain and are major pests.

Genome sequencing projects around the world are revealing promising new health insights.

Malizia II, a high-speed yacht built to race around the world, will take the teen activist to the US.

Thursday's 38.7C in Cambridge is the hottest day ever recorded in the UK, the Met Office says.

More than 350 million trees have been planted in a single day to tackle deforestation, officials say.

Scientists are "extremely concerned" by a bacterium resistant to antibiotics of last resort.

Kiko Matthews, who cycled around the UK coast, says she collected 3.45 tonnes of rubbish from beaches.

Celeste Labedz's picture of herself dressed up as a princess while on a field trip researching glaciers has become a viral hit.

PM Narendra Modi says India is "now one of the biggest and most secure habitats of the tiger".

The semi-autonomous robot is able to use human tools and guide itself across difficult terrain.

Wellcome Trust chairwoman warns Boris Johnson that Britain will lose out if it "amputates" the EU.

The fires are releasing significant amounts of carbon gases, further contributing to global warming.

The two-metre long femur is thought to have belonged to a sauropod from the late Jurassic era.

Chris Kraft, who founded Nasa's mission control, is honoured at the Proms after his death this week.

Tim Flannery, chief councillor of Climate Council Australia, warns about the pace of climate change.

Why Trump is selling plastic straws at $15 a pack - and using them as a stick to beat liberals with.

Plans for a powerful new telescope on a sacred site in Hawaii have created rifts among islanders.

India will fly robots to understand what weightlessness and radiation do to the human body in space.

The speed and extent of global warming exceeds any similar event in the past two millennia, researchers say.