Planet Earth

Can magma be mined for ores and metals? © Getty Images

Can magma be mined for ores and metals?

Deep sea mining © Alamy

Deep sea mining: new depths

Quingdao Eden © The Eden Project

Conservation: How China is creating Edens

The Plastic Age © Alamy

The Plastic Age

Bacteria controls the weather © Scott Balmer

Bacteria controls the weather

Can trees predict the weather? © Getty Images

Can trees predict the weather?

Four ways to reduce your impact on air pollution © Getty Images

Four ways you can help tackle air pollution

Earth's hidden ocean (Diamond mine based around a kimberlite pipe © Dominion Diamonds)

Earth’s hidden ocean

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?