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Fallstreak hole phenomenon forms over Victoria, Australia, leaving rainbow-coloured light streaks shining through the sky

National Trust pays £650,000 to save Dorset landscape which is immortalised as fictional Egdon Heath in Hardy's Return Of The Native

Environment Secretary Liz Truss has announced a strategy to save pollinators. But will it go far enough, asks Geoffrey Lean

A survey by the RSPB has found that many endangered animals have received a boost in the mild weather

Sir Simon Jenkins says grassroots Tories understand the problem but the national party 'does not get the point’

Liz Truss’s advice to leave your lawnmower in the shed for as long as you can will only enrich our gardens, our weekend gardening and our wildlife, says Ian Douglas

Halloween might be old news but something pretty scary has been discovered in Afghanistan - a deer with vampire-like fangs

The National Guard is deploying troops to a rural Hawaii town as lava makes a slow crawl towards homes and roads

17 megafauna hotspots and calls for their protection

Britain's whales, dophins and sharks rely on 17 patches of water to breed, feed and raise young

A promotional video for Sony's new 4K television shows the unique process of bubbles crystallising and turning into hollow blocks of ice while in the air

Panicked, ill-thought-through responses to the threat of climate change could hurt more people than they save, argues Bjorn Lomborg

Lowered oil prices have vastly different effects on the economies of Russia and the USA. Bloomberg investigates

UN climate scientist criticises "unhelpful" alarmism by some NGOs as UN report says science is clear that drastic action is now needed to tackle climate change

Too often, the green movement has been synonymous with a Left-wing mentality that sees progress as a bad thing

House sparrows and starlings among worst hit species as populations decline by 150 million in 30 years

IPCC warns there is little time left to prevent global warming of more than 2C

Pony trekking has long been a popular pastime for visitors to the Brecon Beacons in Wales. Now rural thrill-seekers can try something new

Flooding, dangerous heatwaves, ill health and violent conflicts among likely risks from climate change, report to say