Ancient African skull sheds light on American crocodile origins

The extinct African crocodile species Crocodylus checchiai may be closely related to American crocodile species alive…

Coronavirus: Vietnam bans wildlife trade over pandemic risk

The ban covers the import of wildlife and wildlife products as well as markets, including online…

Russia conducts space-based anti-satellite weapons test

DefenceTalk U.S. Space Command has evidence that Russia conducted a non-destructive test of a space-based anti-satellite…

The Strange Origin of the Search for Life on Mars

Scientists have used Mars jars to study questions in astrobiology for decades. Many didn’t know where…

Falkland Islands

Image: The Falkland Islands are featured in this radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. …

Earth from Space: Falkland Islands

Video: 00:02:50 This week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme features a radar image of…

A discovery of ghostly arms

A notable feature of most spiral galaxies is the multitude of arching spiral arms that seemingly spin out…

Men 'less supportive' in more egalitarian nations

A new 42-country study has found that the more gender egalitarian the country, the less likely…

Five questions about Ethiopia's controversial Nile dam

Ethiopia said this week it had hit its first-year target for filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance…

Fires triple in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands in 2020

The number of forest fires in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, has nearly tripled…