Environment
8 deadliest deserts on the planet and some of the dangerous wildlife you’ll find lurking there
From deathstalker scorpions, active volcanoes and Komodo dragons, this is what the world's deadliest deserts have in store
The strange island where trees bleed, deadly cucumber trees grow and nature has evolved in ways found nowhere else on Earth
Found at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden, Socotra island has the weirdest species
Ichthyosaur pregnant with almost a dozen babies discovered in China – and they were nearly ready to be born
The fossilised marine reptile died with at least eleven foetuses inside her
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25-year camera-trap study of elusive Amazonian mammal reveals it’s changing its behaviour
Giant anteaters in Bolivia are adapting their behaviour in the face of rising temperatures, rather than predation threats
It ‘rains’ horizontally, is home to the largest cat in the Americas and provides life to two oceans
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is a unique and extraordinary cloud forest in Costa Rica
Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, then a team of gophers were helicoptered in to bring it back to life
Everything within eight miles of the huge volcanic blast was wiped out almost instantly. More than 40 years later, scientists reveal how an unorthodox experiment involving burrowing rodents brought life back to the Washington State mountain.
Is rewilding really to blame for the recent wildfires?
As wildfires rage across the world, a fierce debate has erupted over whether rewilding is making landscapes more vulnerable to fire – or could actually help protect them. But what does the evidence really tell us?
It’s 600 miles wide, takes two days to cross and has claimed the lives of sailors
To reach Antarctica, intrepid adventurers must cross one of the most treacherous parts of the ocean: Drake’s Passage
It’s hidden between dunes as high as the Chrysler Building, is filled with dead trees – and sits in the oldest desert in the world
This surreal and otherworldly plain is located in the middle of the Namib desert.
It could easily fit 8 jumbo jets inside – and you’d need to swim through a 1.5km underwater river to reach it
Gunung Mulu National Park in Borneo is home to some of the planet’s most remarkable and vast underground landscapes.
It’s snowing underwater? How in the great depths of the ocean there's a constant blizzard of 'snow'
Did you know it never stops 'snowing' in the ocean?
"They rely on sharp, curved teeth and long claws to slash and tear at their prey with astonishing force..." 10 deadliest national parks in the world
Danger in the world’s national parks comes in many different forms. It can be the wildlife, but there are other aspects that probably need greater consideration.
Scientists X-rayed ancient penguin bones from remote Antarctic island. Here’s why
Antarctica wasn’t always the freezing and ice-capped remote land we know today…
There's a strange spinning island in Argentina that's a perfect circle – and scientists know why
Approximately 120 metres wide, the floating island of El Ojo sits in Paraná Delta in the Province of Buenos Aires.
It spans over 1 million acres, contains rare creatures and is the only place on Earth where two watery, deadly apex predators clash
Everglades National Park, in the US state of Florida, is the largest subtropical wilderness in North America
Polar bear destroys almost entire colony of seabird nests in Alaska. This is why it did it
The feeding behaviour is on the rise along the state’s Arctic coast, driven by climate change.
This coral reef gets bombed every 62 minutes. And it’s changing the way the ocean sounds
Researchers studied the frequency and impacts of bomb fishing, an illegal fishing practice, in the Spermonde Archipelago
They can start out as underwater volcanoes, take up to 30 million years to form – and are home to about 1 million people
From volcanic peaks to coral rings, atolls are among the strangest and most fragile landforms on Earth.
It spans hundreds of kilometres underground, was completely unexplored until the 1960s and is home to a deadly fungal disease
Even the most extensively mapped caves still hold secrets, spanning massive areas underground in mazes of passageways
The $200 million project aiming to bring 100 of the world’s rarest species back from the brink
The Phoenix Species Project is dedicated to recovering 100 critically endangered and extinct in the wild species, including a tree-dwelling salamander, a desert succulent known as the fuzzy belly button, and the bizarre-looking bowmouth guitarfish.
"Once trapped, a dolphin will struggle to escape and could die from suffocation. Even if they escape, the injuries suffered can be catastrophic"
What are ghost nets? Why do they cause so many problems and can anything done? We talk to the experts to find out
It’s twice the size of Texas, weighs more than 770 twinjets – and contains almost 2 trillion pieces of plastic
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world’s largest accumulation of marine plastic
"By the next day, his body had been entirely dissolved by the heat and acidity…" 10 deadliest national parks in USA
If you're thinking of visiting one of these US national parks, think twice and prepare accordingly - some of them are more dangerous than others.
