Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer.

The government's chief environment scientist calls for more openness in admitting the UK's cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are an illusion.

The River Amazon has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years in north-eastern Peru, leaving boats stranded.

Why bed-bugs are on the march again

There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, the physicist and mathematician Professor Stephen Hawking has said.

There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking concludes in a new book.

A growing number of New York sky-scrapers switch off their lights at night to help reduce the number of migratory birds hitting the buildings.

A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it.

Researchers map the nervous system of worms to try and understand how the human cerebral cortex evolved.

A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time.

A rare Chinese tree has flowered for the first time in 23 years at Kew's country estate in West Sussex.

Dr Andy Harland of Loughborough University analyses what new free-kick trajectory findings mean for footballers.

A metal detecting enthusiast finds what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain.

An island off Peru is making money from selling bird poo to use as organic fertiliser.

Rare weather events caused last winter's freak snow storms

Physicists explain one of football's most spectacular free-kicks, showing that Roberto Carlos's 1997 "impossible goal" was not a fluke.

Europe's Herschel space telescope spies an aging star that has surrounded itself in hot water vapour.

The remains of a huge 12,000 year old feast have been found in a cave in Northern Israel.

Fishermen from Suffolk and Essex have welcomed a new quota agreement which allows smaller boats to start catching sole again.

New pictures have emerged of the shipwreck of the Titanic, almost 25 years since it was first discovered.