Astronauts spend months training for launch and a year adjusting to weightlessness, but nothing prepares them for the moment gravity becomes their enemy again.
As Europe's rivers bend to human will, one defiant waterway resists—and its survival has become a battleground between development and a vanishing natural world.
A shrinking lake is exposing toxic dust that threatens millions downwind, turning an environmental crisis into a public health emergency.
The strategy that transformed a deforested wasteland into a reforested success story is reshaping how developing nations think about conservation and economic growth.
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center issued an El Niño Watch on 12 March 2026, the formal alert level indicating favourable conditions for the development of the climate state called El Niño within the following four months.
There is a fact about the night sky in 2026 that does not get mentioned in most space coverage, even though it is one of the more consequential things about how humans currently relate to the universe.
On 14 April 2025, six women boarded a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule at Launch Site One in West Texas and rode it past the Kármán line for ten minutes and twenty-one seconds.
In October 1980, on Ireland's Late Late Show, Gay Byrne asked David Attenborough what he made of the search for life beyond Earth.
