There is a particular kind of dread that comes from walking into a room and feeling instantly, totally seen.
Singapore opened the Marina Barrage in 2008 and solved two problems at once that every coastal megacity now faces: too much water during storms, and not enough water to drink.
Neptune is a planet humans have visited exactly once, for a few hours, in 1989, when Voyager 2 swept past and kept going.
A Suezmax tanker loaded with crude, sliding through the Phillips Channel south of Singapore at around eight knots, displaces close to 150,000 tonnes of water.
The stream is called Cheonggyecheon. It runs approximately 10.8 kilometres west to east through the centre of Seoul, beginning in the hills north of the city and emptying into the Han River that bisects the Korean capital.
Getting to Cova 338 still requires a long walk. The cave sits in the Núria Valley in the Girona region of northeastern Spain, 2,235 metres above sea level, inside a natural park where motorized access is forbidden.
On 9 June 2026, the US Food and Drug Administration added bemotrizinol to the list of active ingredients permitted in over-the-counter sunscreens, according to the agency's news release.
The 75-year-old Sardinian shepherd Tonino Tola, profiled by National Geographic during Dan Buettner's original Blue Zones research in the early 2000s, walked at least five miles every day along the rugged mountain trails of his island's interior.
Tigertail seahorses cling to seagrass blades off Pulau Hantu, a small island in the Singapore Strait, while container ships the length of three football fields pass within a few kilometres on their way to one of the busiest ports on Earth.
On 25 May, a rule adopted by Maine's Board of Environmental Protection in April 2024 came into force.
In the cold green water off Tremblay Sound in Nunavut, a male narwhal lifts a two-meter ivory spike out of the slush, swings it sideways, and cracks down on an Arctic cod with a precise tap that leaves the fish drifting motionless.
In February 2017, a team of researchers from Imperial College London and the World Health Organization published one of the most rigorous life expectancy forecasts ever attempted.
The MV Ever Given, the same 400-metre container ship that wedged itself across the Suez Canal in March 2021, passes through the Singapore Strait on almost…
Iceye, the Finnish radar satellite operator, has raised more than 1 billion euros in a round that values the company at over 10 billion euros — among the largest capital raises in European space history.
In the late summer of 1977, NASA bolted a gold-plated copper phonograph record to the side of each of the two Voyager spacecraft.
A sperm whale cruising the deep Atlantic can fire off a single click that researchers have measured at 230 decibels underwater, a pressure pulse so violent…
