The first purpose-built sporting venue for the 2012 Olympics is completed with Dorset's £15m sailing complex.

An adventurer planning to row solo around the world aims to depart from Tasmania in December.

Seabirds on the Farne Islands see numbers rise during 2008, in contrast to the declines recorded elsewhere in the UK.

A Perthshire wildlife reserves opens its doors all year round so visitors can catch a glimpse of elusive animals.

An adventurer planning to become the first person to row around the world tests his boat in the North Sea.

Conservation groups criticise Malta for failing to stop "rogue hunters" killing protected bird species.

Liz Kalaugher reports from the High Arctic as she travels aboard the Amundsen, a Canadian Coast Guard vessel. She has joined an expedition investigating the effects of climate change off Banks Island.

A sailor who set off in 2005 to become the first to sail solo around the world via the polar regions is 1,000 miles from home.

The BBC's Martin Redfern is spending a month in the Antarctic reporting on International Polar Year.

A challenge is issued to try to spot six different types of bird which winter in Dumfries and Galloway.

Fifty years of study on Alaska's McCall glacier have provided scientists with a timeline of local climatic change.

Calls for a ban on using wild animals in travelling circuses are not backed by scientific evidence, a report suggests.

Your questions on Arctic ice cover and the Northwest passage answered by scientists on the Amundsen Coast Guard vessel.

Northern Europe is in the grips of bluetongue, but Britain's weather could be its best defence if an outbreak is confirmed.

A fabled Arctic shipping route from the Atlantic to Pacific is now open due to ice loss, Europe's space agency says.

Climate change is causing a decline in the number of some birds visiting Britain each winter, the RSPB says.

Australia thrash Bangladesh by 10 wickets in a rain-reduced Super 8 match in Antigua.

Reeds are being transported to a Cumbrian beauty spot to create nesting areas for waterbirds.

Crofting leaders claim problems with the Scottish Executive's interim bull hire scheme could impact on herd numbers.

A major access project to install a path around Scotland's biggest lowland loch is due to get under way.