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The northern lights and beautiful landscapes in Sweden and Norway.

Michael Deacon watches MPs debate the risks of extracting shale gas as Ed Davey gives fracking the go-ahead.

Beetle thought to have been extinct for more than 100 years rediscovered in the south west.

British scientists have made a global appeal for help finding weaknesses in the fungus causing ash dieback after publishing the first molecular sequencing data on the disease.

Telegraph View: The Government needs to confront the scare stories being peddled by opponents of shale gas

Ministers have been accused of preferring wild flower meadows to marine wildlife after ditching plans for almost 100 offshore conservation zones.

UK energy company Cuadrilla, has been given the green light to continue its exploration for the new energy source.

Some of Britain’s most precious landscapes are in danger of being built on under the Government’s latest plans to weaken protection of the countryside by scrapping environment quangos.

Household fuel bills are set to go up by £40 in the next three years because of the cost of building wind farms, government advisers have admitted, but the cost will go up even more if the country relies on a "dash for gas".

As the Government lifts a ban on shale gas fracking, here is an explanation of how the process works and why it is so controversial.

Ministers are expected to approve gas “fracking” after the Prime Minister said the controversial technique could help bring down household energy bills.

Wildlife across Africa, photographed by Heinrich van den Berg.

Environment officials reacted slowly to the detection of ash dieback in Britain because they were too busy trying to stamp out dozens of other outbreaks and did not have enough experts available, MPs have been told.

In terms of fighting global warming right now, it is a failure. But by finally sorting out the Kyoto Protocol and moving towards a global deal where both rich and poor countries cut carbon, could the Doha Deal finally move the world towards the treaty first hoped for in Copenhagen?

Shale gas is not a game changer in the UK, a Government adviser has said, as a new report warns production will disrupt communities and risk water supplies.

Scientists will go ahead with plans to plant genetically modified (GM) crops in the UK next year, despite vandalism during the summer.

A rare bird has been found breeding again on a remote British island, almost 180 years since it was last recorded there, after a conservation programme led by the RSPB killed off all the feral cats.

'Dangerous? You are more likely to die from meeting a werewolf than a real one.’ Allan Hall meets the 'Wolfman’.

Powerful series of photographs tell the story of Iceland's retreating glaciers.