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A Royal Navy ship has ventured further south than any in 80 years, as sailors used a fisheries inspection mission to pay homage to Captain Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. Ice Patrol Ship HMS Protector paid the first official visit to the East Antarctic and became the first Navy vessel to...

National park rangers have found a rare form of ice covering dozens of pieces of dead wood in woodland near Callander. The "hair ice" is a highly unusual type of frost that needs a very particular set of conditions to form. Suzanne Humphris, a ranger team leader for the Loch Lomond and the...

It sounds like the stuff of nightmares – giant earthworms that, if left alone, keep growing and growing to the size of a baby snake. But this is no bad dream – scientists working on the Isle of Rum, off the coast of Scotland, have found the biggest specimens ever seen in the UK, more than...

As a new Survation poll shows that 53% of Britons say they would vote to leave the EU as opposed to 47% who say they would vote to stay in, the Out campaign must fight the scaremongers because Britain will not "fall to its knees" if it leaves the EU, according to the head of the group that kept...

A set of tedious roadworks on a major trunk road is not the first place you would expect to find a Roman treasure trove. But that is exactly what workers on a £380 million upgrade to a 12 mile stretch of the A1 between Leeming Bar and Barton in Yorkshire have discovered. Archaeologists...