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Reuters Satellite images appear to show extensive damage and several destroyed Russian warplanes at a Crimea airbase following explosions earlier this week. The Saky base in the west of Russian-ruled Crimea was rocked by a string of blasts on Tuesday...

University of ReadingResearchers from the University of Reading are "chasing" Arctic cyclones over the sea ice, north of Norway. The team of scientists - together with a specialist pilot - are trying to fly their small research aircraft through summe...

David Barton's fields on his farm in Gloucestershire should be green and full of grazing cattle.Instead the grass has turned yellow, the land is bone-dry, and many of the crops that feed his cows have died."Every day that it doesn't rain, every day t...

Tony Jolliffe BBCEnvironmental groups say the prolonged dry spell is having a "serious" impact on wildlife in rivers.With rivers already under pressure from pollution and use for drinking water, they say the looming drought is adding to the strain.Ch...

Compass GroupSupermarket shoppers could soon be checking the environmental impact of food before putting it in their trolleys, thanks to new research.Reliable information of this kind hasn't been available.That's because UK manufacturers only have to...

Getty Images Ex-US President Donald Trump has said his Florida home was "raided" by the FBI, and that agents broke open a safe. Mr Trump said in a statement that Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach was "occupied by a large group of FBI agents". The search was r...

Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle Scientists have identified the weather conditions that create dry lightning, which starts California's most devastating wildfires. These conditions can be modelled over the long term to better predict...

Getty ImagesThe US Senate has approved a sweeping $700bn (£577bn) economic package that includes major legislation on healthcare, tax and climate change.The bill seeks to lower the cost of some medicines, increase corporate taxes and reduce carbon em...

Getty ImagesThe US Senate has approved a bill that includes $369bn (£305bn) for climate action - the largest investment in America's history.The authors of the Inflation Reduction Act say it will cut the country's carbon emissions by 40% by 2030.Some...

Getty ImagesDemocrats cried with joy and pumped their fists in the air after the US Senate finally approved a key plank of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda.The bill, a product of 18-months of intense wrangling, will now be sent to the Democratic...

Getty Images French officials desperately trying to rescue a beluga whale trapped in the River Seine have come up with a new strategy - a vitamin cocktail. According to AFP, rescuers hope it will help the lost whale regain its appetite and the energy...

Getty Images The grass is always greener on the other side. Just ask Lisa Morris, her Dartford lawn in Kent was brown. "It was shocking. A dead lawn," she says. "We'd never been able to maintain it and spent a fortune on grass seeds. We even put new ...

Facebook Four US police officers have been arrested and charged over the fatal 2020 shooting of Breonna Taylor. Ms Taylor was killed in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, by plainclothes police who were executing a "no-knock" search warrant. The hospi...

Australian Institute of Marine Science Coral has recovered from storms and bleaching events to record levels across much of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a survey has found. The reef's northern and central parts have the highest amount of coral cov...

Adrian Silas Tay Birds from every continent except Antarctica have been photographed nesting or tangled in our rubbish. Photos were submitted by people from all over the world to an online project called Birds and Debris. The scientists running the p...

Getty Images When Mick Miners, a farmer in New South Wales, Australia, first saw a large black object sticking out of the ground in a remote part of his land, he thought it was a dead tree. But on closer inspection - and verification from experts - h...

The Premier League's unrivalled global appeal has seen sold-out stadiums across the world this summer - with fans spread across various continents getting to see their heroes in real life. After two years of Covid-restricted travel, most clubs in the...

China has branded a landmark visit to Taiwan by US Speaker Nancy Pelosi as "extremely dangerous". It accused Mrs Pelosi, the most senior US politician in 25 years to visit the island China claims as its own, of "playing with fire". "Those who play wi...

Theft of farmers' livestock, vehicles and fuel is on the rise due to the UK's cost-of-living crisis, according to a new countryside crime report. Rural crime claims payouts between January and March were over 40% higher than in 2021, insurer NFU Mutu...

Getty ImagesNew research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that "greatly exceed" safety levels.These synthetic substances called PFAS are used in non-stick pans, fire-fighting foam and water-repellent clothe...

Yui MokCatastrophic climate change outcomes, including human extinction, are not being taken seriously enough by scientists, a new study says. The authors say that the consequences of more extreme warming - still on the cards if no action is taken - ...

EPAEngland had its driest July since 1935, with parts having the least rainfall on record, the Met Office has said.For some parts of the country - south-east and central southern England - last month was the driest July since records began in 1836.Mo...

ESOScientists have supercharged one of Earth's most powerful telescopes with new technology that will reveal how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail.The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma, Spain will be able to survey 1,000 stars per ...

FAOConservationist, Leonidas Nzigiyimpa says "you can't manage what you don't know".He adds: "In order to improve the situation of forests, we need to use new technology."Mr Nzigiyimpa is the chief warden of five protected forestry areas in the small...