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.

Nation's favourite cod and chips at climate change risk © Getty Images

National favourite, cod and chips, at climate change risk

Sea swimmers could 'carry potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria' © Getty Images

Sea swimmers could ‘carry potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria’

Climate change: Record-breaking summers ‘a danger to human health’ © Getty Images

Climate change Record-breaking summers ‘a danger to human health’

Climate change: UK weather records tumbled in 2019 (Beachgoers relax by the sea in Brighton in July 2019 © Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change UK weather records tumbled in 2019

Earth core structure. Elements of this 3d image furnished by NASA

Earth's core What lies at the centre and how do we know?

Climate change: Arctic heatwave temperatures reach possible all-time high © Getty Images

Climate change Arctic heatwave temperatures reach possible all-time high

Global methane emissions have reached the highest levels on record © Getty Images

Global methane emissions have reached the highest levels on record

Why do waves bubble and turn white when they break? © Getty Images

Why do waves bubble and turn white when they break?

Coronavirus: Global quiet as human-generated noise drops by 50 per cent under lockdown © Getty Images

Coronavirus Global quiet as human-generated noise drops by 50 per cent under lockdown

'Aggressive' greenhouse gas cuts needed to save polar bears © Getty Images

‘Aggressive’ greenhouse gas cuts needed to save polar bears

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

Marvel at some of the most colourful places on Earth

Microplastics: Laundry filters 'dramatically' reduce fibres © Getty Images

Microplastics Laundry filters 'dramatically' reduce fibres

The prolonged heat has driven wildfires in Siberia © Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service/AP

Climate change Siberia heatwave ‘effectively impossible’ without human activity

Global population predicted to peak by 2064 © Getty Images

Global population predicted to peak by 2064

Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs (Illustration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, in what would have been its natural environment in the Triassic (~237 million years ago) © Alex Boersma)

Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs