Environment

Over the last 540 million years the Earth has weathered three such events - with ice sheets and glaciers stretching far beyond the polar cap

Residents at Longbeach Leisure Park, Hornsea have been left in panic after a huge 50m crack appeared just metres from their doorsteps at the cliff edge

Activities can range from hiking through the wilderness to being taken to wetlands for instruction on frogs or simply planting flowers at school.

The US president has tweeted a claim regarding climate change that is false.  He seemed to be tweeting a statement he watched on Fox News on Tuesday morning, writing, “Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace: “The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science. There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.” However,  the Greenpeace organisation refutes Mr Moore’s claims that he...

During the marine heatwave off the West Cost of the United States, scientists noticed creatures typically seen only in places off the coast of Mexico, showing up hundreds of miles further north

People living in Britain have one and a half years slashed from their life expectancy due to air pollution, warns new research. Dirty air also causes double the number of deaths than previously thought, according to the study. The findings suggest that an estimated 8.8 million people died globally from air pollution, rather than the previously estimated 4.5 million. And in Europe, 790,000 extra deaths took place in 2015 as a result of poor air conditions - caused by diseases...

Another has been called Obelix, the Asterix character - because of its rather rotund shape.

The study shows that traditional snowfall is being replaced by more wet and drizzly conditions - speeding up melting of the ice

At least 20 hounds pursue the vixen through the churchyard in Charlton Horethorne, Somerset