UK astronaut Tim Peake is given a date to fly to the International Space Station, but the mission is not expected to take place before 2015.

Global temperature rises will be slower in the coming decades say researchers but the long term picture is consistent.

Mr. Farman’s single-minded and at times officially derided study of atmospheric changes in the Antarctic led to one of the most important environmental discoveries of the 20th century.    

Two groups of M.I.T. entrepreneurs were working on similar ideas for high-tech clothing. But instead of becoming rivals, they combined their efforts into a single, growing company.    

Beach nourishment projects will restore shorelines but require expensive upkeep and affect ecosystems; federal taxpayers will foot the bill.    

Hurricane Sandy left the parks department with the onerous task of having the beach ready for a Memorial Day weekend opening.    

The prospect of a deep sea "gold rush" opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer.

Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.    

Students in Ghana launch a model of a satellite attached to a balloon for the first time.

Hundreds of birds and marine animals wash up on the Chilean coast, raising fears fishermen might be flouting a ban on blast fishing.

One shot confers lifetime protection and the “booster shot” given at 10 years is no longer necessary, the World Health Organization said.    

A populated park as a model for Earth in the Anthropocene.    

A flurry of discussion about public misperception of climate scientists’ views misses another science perception gap.    

A tree expert says the biggest threat facing UK trees is likely to come from a disease currently unknown to science.

It is early April, and another whale season is drawing to a close.    

GPS data could provide faster and more accurate early warning systems for tsunamis, a German team of scientists suggest.

A "puffin census" has started on the Farne Islands in Northumberland, with National Trust rangers surveying how many breeding pairs of the birds live there.

Has global warming plateaued? As the critics say, the past decade has seen hardly any change in global air temperatures. If warming has stalled, what are the implications for climate change policy? The BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports.

The UK's spring butterflies are being welcomed by enthusiasts, but weeks later than they usually arrive.

The raw power of the Sun as it unleashes the strongest radiation storms yet seen in 2013