Planet Earth

Mother Earth, Gaia, the third rock from the Sun - whatever you call it, this 4.5 billion-year-old planet is the one that we and all known living creatures call home.

Emerald cockroach wasp emerging from dead body

Nature's Nightmares scary animals so ghoulish they deserve their own horror movie

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Like a bolt from the blue The weirdest and rarest weather phenomena from around the world

How do thunderstorms form? © Getty Images

How do thunderstorms form?

The palm weevil a rusty red colour Weevil larvae can excavate holes in the trunk of a palm trees up to a metre long thereby weakening and eventually killing the host plant

Boxing Weevil scoops top Bug Photography Prize

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Blizzard in Brooklyn wins Royal Met’s top photography prize

Where is the rainiest place on Earth? © Getty Images

Where is the rainiest place on Earth?

2ATPPE5 Russia. 04th Feb, 2020. SAKHA REPUBLIC (YAKUTIA), RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 4, 2020: Valerjan Romanovski on his way from Oymyakon to Yakutsk at the temperature of -670C (-88.60F). A team from Poland have travelled the Oymyakon-Yakutsk route on bike and by foot. Valerjan Romanovski rode a bike for 361 km, and Piotr Marczewski walked 151 km in four days. They slept under the open sky and had neither hot water nor hot meals during their journey. Marcin Blenski/TASS Credit: ITAR-TASS News Agency/Alamy Live News

Living on the edge The people living in the world's most extreme habitats

Tiger's tender moment wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 © Sergey Gorshkov, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020

Tiger’s tender moment wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 competition

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Everyday science

20 stunning microscopic photos from the Nikon Small World 2020 competition

Reconstruction of Morganucodon (left) and Kuehneotherium (right) hunting in Early Jurassic Wales 200 million years ago. Original painting by John Sibbick, 2013. © Pam Gill

Ancient teeth reveal how the first mammals lived more like reptiles

G4J6G3 Poisonous Blue Ring Octopus, Hapalochlaena lunulata, Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia

Pretty deadly The world’s most beautiful but dangerous creatures

Water is coming...

After humanity A timeline of the Earth after we go extinct

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Five ways humanity might become extinct

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How human extinction would change the Earth

Plastic waste: can reduce and recycle really make a difference? © Getty Images

Super-enzyme breaks down plastic bottles in ‘a matter of days’