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Suggestions from a government minister that a high-speed rail link may be built alongside a third runway at Heathrow were described last night as a "cynical ploy".

Let its cool glass bottom caress your palm. Feels good, doesn't it? Now wrap your fingers around its hips and push the head firmly into the fixture.

There are moments in the Lake District when scenes among the fells evoke memories of famous views elsewhere.

Independent: Governments could slow global warming dramatically, and buy time to avert disastrous climate change, by slashing emissions of one of humanity's most familiar pollutants -- soot -- according to Nasa scientists.

Independent: Top civil servants and nuclear administrators colluded to prevent MPs from challenging a massive sweetener to a private business taking over the running of Sellafield, internal documents in the hands of The Independent on Sunday reveal.

After two centuries during which it has been hunted, despised and supplanted by rivals, almost to the point of extinction within the UK, there are hopes that the black rat, Rattus rattus, may soon be allowed to regain its historic place in British sewers.

Are you thinking of green construction projects as part of a programme of public works to create jobs?"Britain can lead the world in environmental technologies.

New pesticide regulations could lead to collapse of UK's £300m carrot industry, warn farmers

For many of us, it's back to work tomorrow. All that's left of the festivities is a hangover and bulging bin-liners piled at the back door.

From gift exchange to endangered species

Global oil standoffs tend to involve crude rather than vegetable.

Letters: Policies such as requiring all new homes to be zero carbon by 2016 will be significantly undermined by its own failure to get its house in order

Spread out on the dining room table are the unappetising leftovers of evening meals from long ago.

Thousands of people were advised to stay indoors yesterday after a fire at a chemical works released a large cloud of toxic gas.

It may be known as a tropical paradise, an archipelago of 1,200 coral islands in the Indian Ocean.

Elin Hoylan's striking photographs show the growing problem of waste disposal on the Maldives

A Welsh training academy has said it is expecting applicants to flock to join its renewable energy courses in 2009.

A ban on the use of key pesticides in European farming goes too far too fast, it was warned today.

Satellite observations during the past decade have shown dramatic changes in flow speed on year-to-year timescales at Greenland's outlet glaciers. Seismic events traced back to glaciers during the same time period have been interpreted to have resulted from calving events at the glacier terminus or surging events lubricated by subglacial meltwater.