The former French legionnaire and 73-year-old adventurer Simon Murray is the new chairman of oil company Gulf Keystone.

Helicopters drop 200 tons of poison pellets in world’s biggest extermination project

A dismantlable research station created in the icy wastes for the British Antarctic Survey has been shortlisted for a global architecture award.

Is there a cooler architect in Britain than Hugh Broughton? Cooler, as in designing Antarctic bases capable of withstanding temperatures of minus 55C and winds that surge to 100mph, and keeping researchers comfortable for the nine months of the year that they are marooned at their research bases without any prospect of flying or shipping out.

Done much special?

Being on an expedition is about deprivation Whether its trekking through the jungles in Peru or hiking up Kilimanjaro, you really value the resources you have: one pair of pants, limited rations of food, limited battery power. My trips also remind me what I have left behind. Once I'm back home, I'll really value what I have, until I start to become complacent – then I'll go off around the world again.

Study concludes there is 1 in 20 chance that existing defences would be unable to cope with extreme storm surge

Where are you now and what can you see?

Scientists have harnessed the principles of photosynthesis to develop a new way of producing hydrogen – in a breakthrough that offers a possible solution to global energy problems.

Detectives investigating reports of historic sexual abuse by a former teacher have widened their investigation to take in at least two other schools.

TV weatherman Fred Talbot was arrested today by police investigating historic sex abuse allegations at a school.

The full text of the Antarctic explorer's final note to his naval commander is released 101 years after his death

The last surviving member of the team which first conquered Everest in 1953 has died at the age of 89.

Tourism booms again, but continent has no mandatory protection against visitors