London Zoo is introducing a new male to its group of gorillas. They have been without a troop leader since the last male died in March, but keepers say it is a tricky operation.

How to trail a garden snail to find out whether the shelled molluscs have a homing instinct.

Authorities at the port of Rotterdam are leading European efforts to crack down on the illegal export of electrical and electronic waste to the developing world.

Astronomers put together the first three-dimensional reconstruction of an exploding star.

Installation of the world’s largest test site for wave energy has begun off the Cornish coast.

Biologists Robin Lovell-Badge and Sir Ian Wilmut discuss the safety of eating meat from an offspring of a cloned animal.

An Ariane rocket has launched from French Guiana carrying two communications satellites.

There is now optimism about the speed and scale of the remaining clean-up operation after the worst environmental disaster in US history.

Two decades after a referendum voted to close it down, Italy is planning to re-open its nuclear power industry.

A „poo-powered” VW Beetle has taken to the streets of Bristol in an attempt to encourage sustainable motoring.