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.

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

An individual of Ankylosaurus magniventris, a large armoured dinosaur species, witnesses the impact of an asteroid, falling on the Yucatán peninsula 66 million years ago. Not even its large size and thick armour sheltered its kind from the violence of this cosmic disaster © Fabio Manucci

Dinosaur extinction Asteroid impact ‘only plausible explanation’

China's manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi (or Deep-sea Warrior) © Sun Qing/Getty Images

Toxic mercury pollution found in the ocean’s deepest point

NGOs call for a post-COVID green recovery © Getty Images

NGOs call for a post-COVID green recovery

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac: Has climate change determined our future? © Getty Images

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac Has climate change determined our future?

Tom Rivett-Carnac:

Climate change Can we really achieve net-zero emissions by 2050?

Stonehenge during the summer solstice © Getty Images

Summer solstice: five big questions

48000-year-old arrowheads found in Sri Lankan cave © Langley et al., 2020

48,000-year-old arrowheads found in Sri Lankan cave

8 dazzling pictures of the most colourful sights on Earth © Mac/Solent News/REX/Shutterstock

The most colourful sights on Earth

May 2020 'joint-hottest month' since records began © Getty Images

May 2020 ‘joint-hottest month’ since records began

Photo (top) and 3D reconstruction using microtomography (bottom) of the miniature bird sculpture. Its production combined four different techniques (abrasion, gouging, scraping and incision), which left 68 microfacets on the surface of the object © Francesco d'Errico and Luc Doyon

13,000-year-old miniature bird sculpture ‘oldest work of art’ to be found in China

Roman ciRoman city revealed in 'astonishing level of detail' by GPR technology (Ground penetrating radar image of the newly discovered temple in the Roman city of Falerii Novi, Italy, by the University of Cambridge and Ghent University in Belgium © L Verdonck/PA)ty revealed in 'astonishing level of detail' by GPR technology ( Ground penetrating radar image of the newly discovered temple in the Roman city of Falerii Novi, Italy, by the University of Cambridge and Ghent University in Belgium © L Verdonck/PA)

Roman city revealed in ‘astonishing level of detail’ by radar technology

May 2020 global temperatures hottest on record © Getty Images

May 2020 global temperatures hottest on record