Fire chiefs are set to increase the number of specialist teams trained in 'fighting fire with fire'.

Storms, droughts and record high temperatures lie ahead as US scientists confirm that El Niño has arrived.

Smoke from wildfires has enveloped Toronto and New York. We look at the role of a changing climate.

Researchers have found the first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant.

Panorama investigates the links between UK's food safety advisors and the ultra-processed food industry.

Find out how the world's major economies are doing on cutting their emissions and what lies ahead.

The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner - a keen naturalist - has been on their trail.

A French factory is pioneering recycling of solar units as experts warn of a waste mountain by 2050.

A £6.5m scheme to help prevent the extinction of priority species in Scotland has been launched.

They are largely unpredictable and unforeseeable but are twisters becoming a more serious threat?

A former prisoner held for years in the same jail as the group tells the BBC of their plight.

UK researchers are developing peas that don't taste like peas as an environmentally friendly alternative to soya.

Animal by-products being used for aviation fuel could increase demand for palm oil, experts fear.

Workers at Taste by Spellbound in Connecticut were shocked when they spotted the uninvited customer.

China has sent three astronauts to its Tiangong Space Station, putting a civilian into orbit for the first time.

The careful operation required a long piece of rope to open the car door from a distance.

The 51-year-old has a narrow escape from the animal while snorkelling off a luxury island.

Whole towns in Europe are being heated by huge, energy efficient heat pumps.

The cubs were the first to be born in the country 70 years after the animals were declared extinct here

Thousands of 'otherworldly' animals live beneath the ocean in an area that may be mined for metals.

Government minister pushes back against EU and US calls for removal of Sultan al-Jaber as head of COP28.

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is celebrating the birth of meerkat pups for the first time in 16 years.

A high court judge dismisses a legal challenge over the welfare of fast-growing chickens on farms.

A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it, thanks to electronic brain implants