Environment

Researchers found no significant overall increase in the number of employees working flexibly since the changes came into effect four years ago

Michael Gove this morning denied that fellow hard Brexit Tories are plotting to oust their party leader. Talking to the BBC’s Today programme Mr Gove insisted that "loose talk" of a leadership challenge could "undermine" Brexit negotiations, despite reports that 50 of his colleagues met last night to discuss ditching Theresa May. A Tory leadership coup could be just days away with members of the Hard Brexit shadowy Tory ‘government within a government’ the ERG meeting to plot ditching the...

Researchers say better guidance for doctors on how to manage chronic pain is essential, if an ‘opioid epidemic’ - similar to the one in the United States- is to be avoided

In Scotland alone, a total of 37 carcasses of a species, Cuvier’s beaked whales, have been discovered - all in an advanced stage of autolysis, or self-digestion, since the start of August

Elusive Snailfish found during the expedition to the Atacama Trench

Study suggests that paddy fields worldwide could be responsible for up to twice the level of climate impact to what was previously estimated

Drones are used to drop the ultra-heat resistant 'dragon eggs' in dangerous locations around the top of active volcanoes where they can provide valuable real-time data.

One of our favourite mammal is being wiped out by intensive farming and climate change, say scientists.

A protein found in the insect's poison dampens down inflammation, according to new research