Planet Earth

Neolithic burial from Çatalhöyük, Turkey, is represented by a headless young adult female with a fetal skeleton (arrow). Skull removal was a burial custom practiced in number of instances at this locality © Image courtesy of the Çatalhöyük Research Project/Jason Quinlan.

First proto-urban communities experienced overcrowding, infection and violence

Salt distribution area at Khewra Salt mine Salt of the Earth © Luke Duggleby

Salt of the Earth The mineral intimately tied to our lives and land

Ocean explorer completes deepest ever dive © Tamara Stubbs/Reeve Joliffe/Five Deeps Expedition

Ocean explorer completes deepest-ever dive in Mariana Trench

Why are there two high tides per day? © Getty Images

Why are there two high tides per day?

Why can't we see the wind? © Getty Images

Why can’t we see the wind?

Could geoengineering cause a climate war? © Getty Images

Could geoengineering cause a climate war?

© Sergey Gashchak/Chernobyl Centre

Chernobyl Can life survive in a radioactive environment?

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Don't quit your day job 6 of the most extreme jobs in science

How do dinosaur footprints get fossilised? © Getty

How do dinosaur footprints get fossilised?

Alexander von Humboldt: the first environmentalist © Alamy

Alexander von Humboldt: the first environmentalist

Are all the world’s oceans at the same level? © Getty

Are all the world’s oceans at the same level?

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Earth Day Take a trip back to 1970 for the first Earth Day

What if the Earth’s magnetic field died? – Jim Al-Khalili © Getty Images

Science Focus Podcast What if the Earth’s magnetic field died? – Jim Al-Khalili

Wildfire simulator, South Carolina © Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety

The masters of natural disasters