Science delegations to the European Space Agency (Esa) have approved a much more expensive mission to Mercury. Many researchers feared Bepi might be cancelled, but Esa's Science Programme Committee has passed the bigger budget.

While traditional universities struggle with soaring costs and declining endowments, the online education sector is expected to grow at least 15% in the US in 2009.

Madagascar, which has been isolated from landmasses for more than 160m years, is the world's fourth largest island and a "conservation hotspot" with thousands of exotic species found only here. These include nearly 100 species of lemur, six ........

Everyone has no doubt heard about how fisheries around the world are in grave danger of being fished into oblivion. Countless species are currently threatened by overfishing, and environmentalists work fiercely to prevent victims like sharks and tuna.....

The Copenhagen Climate conference is just around the corner and we are working on clear goals for the negotiations, a "simple" menu of what the world needs to agree on.

With the help of the following applications, your phone can provide daily tips for going green, calculate your carbon footprint, and even help you charge your phone in a more energy-efficient manner.

A mass of air laden with industrial nitrogen pollution may be hardly noticed in Britain, but it can cause a flurry of activity in bacteria living in extreme environments as far as the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, north of Norway.

Watch the history of the United States unfold, from its birth, to its music, to its elections, and to its cultural breakthroughs.

Whether you want to explore ways to implement these ideas in your own future career or are interested in finding out about sustainability efforts across a variety of fields, these lectures will give you insight.

Some truly strange creatures can be found on the ocean seafloor, and boneworms are among the most bizarre -- they have no eyes or mouth and feast on the bones of dead whale carcasses.