New Scienist stalwart Fred Pearce’s new book is a richly-exemplified and controversial defense of invasive species. 

Ronald Reagan issued a last-ditch appeal to Margaret Thatcher to abandon her campaign to retake the Falklands and to hand over the islands to international peacekeepers, according to official British documents made public today.

The Royal Mail mistakenly sent Christmas post bound for a south Atlantic British colony to Paraguay and the Caribbean, it emerged tonight.

A FIRE on board a nuclear ship due to enter the Irish Sea in the next fortnight could release a plutonium cloud that would causes thousands of cancer cases, Greenpeace has warned.