New ETS charges and images of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig catastrophe are giving impetus to the fledgling bio-fuels sector.

A library in your handbag? Cheaper reading? The salvation of newspapers? Digital publishing promises all that and more. But, reports Karyn Scherer, the future isn't quite here yet.

The United Nations has decided to set up a single, powerful body to promote equality for women around the world.

A tidal wave of demand for game meat could drive some of Africa's last hunter-gatherers to eradicate the very wildlife that sustains them.

Chefs from London to Loch Voll are growing their own produce, from bumper crops of carrots to unusual herbs they find difficult to source.

A British report shows that during the course of four decades, our lives have changed in a myriad subtle ways.

Scientists warn that the average person is not ready to face his or her own mortality.

Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for all of its citizens.

While a white person has a one in three chance of finding a donor, Asian and black patients have just a one in 125,000 chance.

The NZ Walking Access Commission is producing a mapping system so that people can more easily find out where there is legal public access across land.

Racism and xenophobic violence is flourishing in towns and villages across Britain - while inner city areas that were once hotbeds of racial violence are now more "at ease" with diversity.

How 3D games are changing the experience.

Thirty years ago it was one of the great environmental issues, along with the hole in the ozone layer and CFC chemicals. Now acid rain may be making a comeback.

Researchers estimate that the iron-rich faeces of sperm whales helps remove 400,000 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year.

Polar scientists are united on the likelihood of level rises - but how much and when?

The Royal Dutch Medical Association has adopted the view that the circumcision of underage boys violates their human rights.

Contemporary dance is enjoying an explosion in popularity, from belly dancing to street and ballet styles.

Buried in a local Michigan paper, one byline offers a taste of what journalism could one day become.

A radical plan for cut-price degrees has been outlined in the UK as a means of solving higher education's economic woes.

The image of Africa in many minds is of a Hopeless Continent - but more than just a football stadium is being reborn.

Meet microfinance pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, banker to the world's poor.

Raheel Raza is part of a growing group of Muslim feminists challenging the traditional exclusion of women from leadership roles within the mosque.