Planet Earth

How safe are our Marine Protected Areas? (A marine debris team collects fishing nets that have been abandoned in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument © NOAA)

How safe are our Marine Protected Areas?

Earth’s water may not all have come from asteroids © NASA

Earth’s water may not all have come from asteroids

Air pollution is killing us, here's how you can stop it - Gary Fuller © Getty Images

Air pollution is killing us, here’s how you can stop it – Gary Fuller

How far back in time would we be able to go and still breathe our planet's air? © Getty Images

How far back in time would we be able to go and still breathe our planet’s air?

The Venta Mearsk became the first commercial container ship to successfully navigate the Northern Sea Route © Mearsk

Who wins when the sea ice melts?

fantasy field stormy sky and little Autumn tree. © Getty Images

Does a hot summer trigger an early autumn?

When trees grow, where does the matter come from? © Getty Images

When trees grow, where does the matter come from?

There is no Plan B for planet Earth - Lord Martin Rees © Lucinda Douglas-Menzies/Photo Researchers

There is no Plan B for planet Earth – Lord Martin Rees

Could humans live in underwater cities? © Getty Images

Could humans live in underwater cities?

Earth’s Final Frontier: 10 of the most mysterious places in the oceans © Magic Torch/BBC Focus magazine

10 of the most mysterious places in the oceans

The thought experiment: What would happen if the ocean froze over? © Getty Images

The thought experiment: What would happen if the ocean froze over?

© Craig Foster

Oldest known drawing found in South African rock

Adapted from Everything You Know About Planet Earth is Wrong by Matt Brown, publihsed by Batsford. Illustrations by Sara Mulvanny.

Five “facts” about planet Earth that are completely wrong

How do we know the geology of the British isles? © Getty Images

How do we know the geology of the British isles?