For the first time, women in India have legal protection against abuse in their own homes under a law which came into force yesterday. It is the first time Indian law has recognised marital rape, sexu...

The corporations that sell bottled water are depleting natural resources, jacking up prices, and lying when they tell you their water is purer and tastes better than the stuff that comes out of the ta...

Super-fast internet access is on its way, but we may have to rewire Britain first. Jimmy Lee Shreeve reports on a rival plan to do away with cables and beam the web into our homes - from airships...

Men who use mobile phones could be risking their fertility, warn researchers. A new study shows a worrying link between poor sperm and the number of hours a day that a man uses his mobile phone....

· Pilot scheme to encourage smaller vehicles · 2003 heatwave cost UK £160m, says study Motorists who drive gas-guzzling cars are to face significant rises in parking fees under a pioneering scheme...

While rich nations tinker with policies that may shave their carbon dioxide emissions, low-lying South Pacific nations such as Kiribati are sinking beneath the waves. Kiribati, an archipelago of 3...

Weather in the Pacific Northwest over the next century will be astrange double whammy of longer dry spells punctuated by heavier rainfall because of global warming, a new study forecasts....

A spate of rain is all it takes to set off some earthquakes. That's what a team of German geologists has discovered after monitoring swarms of tiny tremors in the mountains of Bavaria....

Scientists in India have developed a way to extract juice effectively for the first time from a berry which is thought to be good for the heart....

The so-called "hole" in the earth's protective ozone layer is at a new record -- 10.6 million square miles of sky around the South Pole -- even though most nations agreed back in 1987 to phase out the...