Planet Earth

A man rides a cart over the frozen 'Lake Cildir' in Aradahan Province of Turkey © Mehmet Ali Ozcan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

You think you’re cold? Here are some amazing photos of chilly people in freezing places

Cave art suggests that ancient people had a good grasp of the night sky, and drew images of animals to depict constellations © University of Edinburgh

Cave paintings reveal ancient Europeans’ knowledge of the stars

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

Science Focus Podcast Air pollution is killing us, here's how you can stop it

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?