A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.

The vast expanse of debris – in…

Honeybee populations are threatened worldwide. Could conserving native black bees in northern Europe help avert the crisis?

The small, windswept island of Læsø lies in the Kattegat, just off the Danish mainland. Moors, heather and meadows blanket its interior, and…

The US came under intense criticism yesterday for its policy of promoting biofuels, which a senior UN official claimed was diverting food away from the hungry “to satisfy a thirst for fuel for vehicles”.

The biofuel issue quickly emerged as…

Britain’s jails will be criticised today as no more than costly bed-and-breakfast lodgings as new figures show that thousands of prisoners a year reject the chance of early release.

More than 37,000 inmates opted out of tagging and other release…

The howl of a wolf echoes through the glen, lumbering bears fish in the lochs and moose amble through the pine forest — this is multi-millionaire Paul Lister’s vision for his estate in the Scottish Highlands, and his grand scheme…