US universities and study abroad organisations have committed to spend $185 million (£122 million) over the next five years to make study abroad more accessible ...

Short summer breaks help children adjust to foreign study methods and develop life skills

The number of shark attacks in New South Wales have been particularly high this year, even though estimated shark numbers are at record lows.

China wants to speed construction of a national network to charge electric cars, to help reach an ambitious goal of 5 million green vehicles on its roads by 2020

Scientists have long blamed a single culprit in the sudden and violent mass extinction that took out the dinosaurs ...

Each time SolarCity sells a megawatt of solar power in the United States, it lights up a school in Central America or Africa by installing solar-based electricity — which amounts to 1,000 schools this year.

The rise of open-access publishing, combined with pressure on academics to get published, has caused a spectacular increase in the number of articles spewed out by “predatory” journals ...

Rapidly rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increased lightning strikes are leading to ever-larger wildfires in the northern forests ...

I have just read the news that Plymouth University has appointed Judith Petts as its new vice-chancellor.