Environment
2,000 pairs of underpants buried across Switzerland. Here’s what scientists discovered when they dug them up
A citizen science project in Switzerland shows how underwear and teabags decompose in different soil types, offering clues about the health of our subterranean world.
It’s one of the driest places on Earth. Now images from space show “rarely seen” snowfall in the Chilean desert
Scientists attribute the unusually wet winter in Chile to the strengthening El Niño.
"It produced a 12km high eruption plume, a large volume of floating pumice, and an island almost a mile-wide with cliffs 30-50m high"
The first recorded eruption of Home Reef, Tonga, was in the mid-19th century and it has had several periods of eruptions in the years since.
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People started building artificial beaver dams in California. Now something "mind blowing" is happening
Following the construction of the dams, one river saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates soar from 8% to 60%.
It’s the size of Texas, stores 70 billion tonnes of carbon and deadly predators roam its harsh, remote landscape
The West Siberian Lowland is the world’s largest high-latitude wetland and contains the biggest peatland
Was it the lost city of Atlantis or a crashed UFO? The strange Ferris wheel-sized circle found at the bottom of the sea
The Baltic Sea Anomaly has been the subject of mystery and debate for many years
It looks like spaghetti, doesn’t have a gut or mouth – and has been feeding on bioplastics for millions of years
Long before we invented biodegradable plastic, nature had its own version.
No one lives on this remote Russian island – but it does have a mysterious graveyard of gigantic, 600-year-old whale bones
Located off the coast of the Russian Far East, Yttygran Island is home to a mysterious graveyard.
Epic footage shows birds soaring over massive waterfall. Can you guess the location?
Can you guess where this incredible footage was taken?
Iceland’s famous Blue Lagoon looks like a natural hot spring – but the truth is much stranger
It starts in the Pacific but can affect the entire planet… The strange climate phenomenon that can wreak havoc with wildlife and weather
Mark Carwardine reveals what impact this series of climatic changes has on wildlife.
It's as big as Egypt, home to 350 people and the world's deadliest bear. This is the biggest national park on the planet – and no, it's not what you think…
If you think the largest national park on Earth is Yellowstone, think again – as it doesn't even come close...
A great earthquake struck this mountain range – and created an underwater, eerie forest
This lake, deep in the Kazakhstani mountains, might be one of the most bizarre in the world
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: When humans fled the worst nuclear incident in history, animals moved in. This is what happened next
Brown bears, golden eagles, wolves, lynx and bison are just a few of the species that now live in the partially abandoned city of Chernobyl in Ukraine. Some animals are flourishing, others have been forced to evolve...
It's twice the size of the Serengeti, flat as a pancake, white as snow – and home to mysterious, dancing lights and one of the world's fastest mammals
Known as the white desert, It looks like an endless field of snow and home to one of the world's rarest mammals
8 deadliest deserts on the planet and some of the dangerous wildlife you’ll find lurking there
From deathstalker scorpions, active volcanoes and two-metre long monitors 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
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.
