Environment

A disabled man was left "bamboozled" with the new Universal Credit benefit after receiving a payment -- of just 1p. Neil Wright, 50, who suffers from acute arthritis, cannot understand why his usual monthly UC payment of £284 turned into a bank deposit of just a penny. The nominal payment went in on December 14, 2018, and he is not due another until January 14, 2019 - leaving him with less than a pound to buy food with. Former taxi...

Researchers found, surprisingly, that while air pollution is falling in China, harmful ground-level ozone pollution is on the rise, especially in big cities

The trash included barrels of oil which could have 'decimated' the protected area, litter pickers said

A Grauer's gorilla's chances of being born with harmful mutations that cause fused digits have soared in the last 100 years threatening their survival

Judges of the Wild World picture competition, run by the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers, had to sift through hundreds of entries from all over the world

He said: 'a civil war is about to kick off'

A total of around 1,575 hours of sunshine have been measured across the UK so far in 2018 - only behind the record 1,587 clocked up in 2003, according to the Met Office

Pine needles could be used to make bio-oil to replace chemicals derived from oil, thanks to new Biorefinery techniques developed by University of Sheffield scientists

The revolutionary technique mimics the human lung - and could rival wind and solar power for creating clean energy