The planet's rich diversity of life needs to be preserved in its entirety because it is vital for our long-term survival.

Calls to increase catch quotas for depleted fish stocks, such as cod, are deeply misguided.

BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary from Damascus.

Now eagerly anticipated, solar eclipses have been surrounded by fear and superstition for thousands of years.

Deep sea fish species in the north Atlantic may be on the brink of extinction due to exploitative fishing.

Kate Bush releases her first album in 12 years next week but has it been worth the very long wait?

Welcome to the Lunchtime Limerick, in which you supply the first line, and then you also supply the rest of the verse.

The shrinking size of fish due to their overexploitation has dire consequences for the recovery of depleted stocks, scientists say.

BBC News Online's Alex Kirby introduces a six-part series on the some of the most pressing environmental issues facing the human race today.

Escaping from an Australian jail, former heroin addict Gregory David Roberts fled to India, joined the Bombay mafia and set up a clinic in one of the city's slums. Now he has put it all down in a bestselling novel.

Women who are born in the summer are likely to have fewer children than women born in other months, researchers suggest.

Gadget makers seem to think that only men are interested in the latest technology, argues BBC presenter Tracey Logan.

Being exposed to the pesticide DDT in the womb could delay a woman becoming pregnant.

A once-plentiful species of antelope could be wiped out after wholesale poaching triggered a dramatic change in mating behaviour.

German erotica giant Beate Uhse comes to Surrey, a move which could hit Ann Summers but spell good news for Britain's liberated women.

More than 100 new frog species are discovered in the Sri Lankan rainforest.

An Italian couple who claimed to have conceived triplets when the woman was already six months pregnant admit the story was fabricated.

Men appear to prefer "ageing beauties" to younger, plainer women - despite the fact that they may be less fertile.

The older a man is, the longer it is likely to take his partner to conceive - irrespective of her age, researchers have found.

Women who are trying to get pregnant should avoid drinking any alcohol, according to new research.