The baby of a critically endangered eastern black rhinoceros has taken its first steps at Chester zoo in northern Eng...

UK overseas territory Tristan da Cunha’s new marine protected area will be fourth largest sanctuary of its kind

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to...

Scientists have sequenced the "code of life" of species from almost every branch of the bird family tree.

Record levels of new renewable energy capacity are set to come on stream this year and next, while fossil fuel capaci...

International Energy Agency expects green electricity to end coal’s 50-year reign by 2025

There are two more reasons to love Australia's fluffiest aeronautical marsupials after the discovery that there are a...

The male white rhino calf was born at Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park in Florida, and currently under observation ...

Voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative to reintroduce wolves into the southern Rockies, where there's plenty of...

The navy, environmentalists and locals pushed most of the beached pilot whales back into the sea.

Most of the bans won't take effect until 2022, to give stores time to use their current inventory and search for alte...

A village in southern Scotland has succeeded in buying a large part of Langholm Moor, a famous grouse moor held for c...