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Any serious oil spill in the ice of the Arctic, the "new frontier" for oil exploration, is likely to be an uncontrollable environmental disaster despoiling vast areas of the world's most untouched ecosystem, one of the world's leading polar scientists has told The Independent. Read more here: Oil exploration under Arctic ice could cause 'uncontrollable' natural disaster

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An ambitious attempt to create an encyclopedia of every known species on Earth has reached a major new milestone.The Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), a free and collaborative website, said on Monday it now has pages for each of 750,000 species, meaning more than one-third of all the planet's 1.9m species are now covered. The rest is here: Encyclopedia...

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An ambitious attempt to create an encyclopedia of every known species on Earth has reached a major new milestone.The Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), a free and collaborative website, said on Monday it now has pages for each of 750,000 species, meaning more than one-third of all the planet's 1.9m species are now covered. Continue reading here: Encyclopedia of...

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The fate of a shrinking salt lake is the last thing you would expect football fans to chant about - but Iranians are doing all they can to stop a looming ecological disaster. Lake Orumieh in north-west Iran, one of the world's largest salt lakes and a Unesco biosphere reserve, is disappearing due to drought and government mismanagement,...

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The fate of a shrinking salt lake is the last thing you would expect football fans to chant about - but Iranians are doing all they can to stop a looming ecological disaster. Lake Orumieh in north-west Iran, one of the world's largest salt lakes and a Unesco biosphere reserve, is disappearing due to drought and government mismanagement,...

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62 percent of the area deforested in the Brazilian Amazon until 2008 is occupied by cattle pasture, reports a new satellite-based analysis by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and its Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa). Here is the original post: SHARE: print 62% of deforested Amazon land ends up as cattle pasture

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62 percent of the area deforested in the Brazilian Amazon until 2008 is occupied by cattle pasture, reports a new satellite-based analysis by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and its Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa). More: SHARE: print 62% of deforested Amazon land ends up as cattle pasture

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The impact that millions of pounds of government funding has had on Scotland's environment is to be assessed by a new project. The three-year study will evaluate the effect of £174 million of agri-environment funding awarded under the Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP). Go here to read the rest: Study examines environment funding

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The impact that millions of pounds of government funding has had on Scotland's environment is to be assessed by a new project. The three-year study will evaluate the effect of £174 million of agri-environment funding awarded under the Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP). Read more here: Study examines environment funding

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The odds aren't great for male northern white rhinos looking for love. Only two females are left on the planet, and imminent extinction does not seem to make rhinos particularly horny: the last time this captive population produced a baby was in 2000. Now, there may be a way to save this and other endangered species - with...