Planet Earth

Why don’t hailstorms last as long as rainstorms? © Getty Images

Why don’t hailstorms last as long as rainstorms?

The Amazon rainforest: could it become a desert? © Joao Laet/AFP/Getty Images

Reality Check Could the Amazon rainforest become a desert?

Human overpopulation: can having fewer children really make a difference? © Getty Images

Human overpopulation Can having fewer children really make a difference?

UK carbon emissions cuts are slowing down © PA

UK carbon emissions cuts are slowing down

Mass extinction: Can we stop it? © Tidy Designs

Mass extinction Can we stop it?

Christiana Figueres: “Net zero carbon is our only option” © Getty Images

Christiana Figueres “Net zero carbon is our only option”

Wildfires: the science behind the burn © USDA Forest service

Wildfires The science behind the burn

Washing laundry on a delicate cycle releases more plastic microfibres into the ocean © Owen Humphreys/PA

Washing laundry on a delicate cycle releases more plastic microfibres into the ocean

Climate change: extreme weather events could occur every year by 2050 (Waves crash over Newhaven Lighthouse on the south coast of England on October 21, 2017 as Storm Brian hits the country © GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images)

Climate change Extreme weather events could occur every year by 2050

Climate change: "To stop a global temperature increase ... the level of ambition needs to be tripled" (Protesters march and hold placards as they attend the Global Climate Strike on 20 September 2019 in Edinburgh © Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Triple the level of ambition to slow climate change, experts warn

Science focus Podcast: Are Generation Z our only hope for the future? – John Higgs (Students and activists participate in a climate change strike on 15 March 2019 in Chicago, USA Scott Olson/Getty Images

John Higgs Are Generation Z our only hope for the future?

Giant asteroid collision in outer space kicked off ancient ice age © Don Davis, Southwest Research Institute

Giant asteroid collision in outer space kicked off ancient ice age

How can we save our planet? - Sir David Attenborough © BBC

Science Focus Podcast How can we save our planet? - Sir David Attenborough

Year-long expedition departs for Arctic to study climate change © Rune Stoltz Bertinussen/NTB Scanpix via AP

Year-long expedition departs for Arctic to study climate change

Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic

Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic