Nobel Peace Prize: Why is it so important?

Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is named as the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. …

Badger culls have varying impacts on cattle TB

The UK government policy sees cattle TB incidence fall in two badger cull areas but rise…

A reliable clock for your microbiome

For all the attention the human microbiome has been getting over the last few years, one…

A spiral in profile

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope sees galaxies of all shapes, sizes, brightnesses, and orientations in the cosmos. Sometimes, the telescope…

Better protection sought for Thailand's helmeted hornbill

Time is running out for Thailand’s dwindling population of helmeted hornbills thanks to poaching of the…

Space selfie

Selfie time! ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano shared this photo with NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina…

Plastic pollution: How Ibiza is tackling its problem with waste

Hundreds of thousands of Brits travel to Ibiza each summer, but what happens to their waste…

Lake Natron, Tanzania

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over two saline lakes in East Africa: the larger Lake…

Earth from Space: Lake Natron

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over…

'Unacceptable' power cuts blasted as California fire risk spreads south

Hundreds of thousands of Californians were still without electricity due to pre-emptive blackouts Thursday as hot,…