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The tiny diamond-backed spider was thought to be extinct before it was rediscovered in 2017.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin is described as "a scientist of exceptional brilliance and determination".

Belfast woman Deby has set herself the target of enabling 100 women to walk on the Moon.

Conservationists say a captive breeding programme has now released 30,000 pine hoverflies into the wild.

Demonstrations are held outside the council HQ as the use of weedkiller is debated.

Beavers were brought back to the Forest of Dean eight years ago, centuries after their UK extinction.

A meteor shower first recorded almost 3,000 years ago is lighting up UK skies this week. Here is how best to watch it.

A group established to put forward the argument for a national park in Galloway has been dissolved.

The nature corridor would stretch from the Lee Valley Regional Park to the Thames via Tower Hamlets.

The war in the Middle East has brought renewed attention to Britain's vulnerability to energy price shocks.