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.

Annual plastic waste emissions could reach 53 million tonnes by 2030 © Getty Images

Annual plastic water pollution could reach 53 million tonnes by 2030

Pterosaur's sensitive beak helped them detect nearby prey © Megan Jacobs/University of Portsmouth/PA

Pterosaur’s sensitive beak helped it detect nearby prey

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020
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Location of shot: Spitzberg

10 humorous pictures from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020

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

Switching to a plant-based diet could turn back the clock on carbon dioxide emissions © Getty Images

Global veganism could undo 16 years’ of fossil fuel emissions

New discovery could change shark evolution ©Getty

Sharks may have evolved bones and lost them again

What did dinosaurs evolve from? © Franco Tempesta/Absolute Expert: Dinosaurs/© 2018 National Geographic Partners LLC

What did dinosaurs evolve from?

Bacteria found on seaweed makes for an environmentally-friendly laundry detergent © Getty Images

Bacteria on seaweed makes laundry environmentally friendly

Does the Sun make a sound? © Getty

Will increased Sun activity make climate change worse?

Where does soil come from? © Getty Images

Where does soil come from?

The technology solving the ocean's greatest mysteries © Getty Images

The technology solving the ocean’s greatest mysteries

How do thunderstorms form? © Getty Images

How do thunderstorms form?

Greenland's ice sheet melted at a rate equivalent to 'six Olympic-sized swimming pools every second' last year © Getty Images

Greenland’s ice sheet melted at a rate equivalent to ‘six Olympic-sized swimming pools every second’ last year

Earliest example of abstract British art discovered in Jersey (The plaquettes are thought to have been made by the Magdalenians © Trustees of the Natural History Museum)

Earliest example of abstract British art discovered in Jersey

Meet the scientists going to extreme lengths to study climate change © Reuters

Meet the scientists going to extreme lengths to study climate change