Remote Mount Michael volcano hosts persistent lava lake
Image copyright USGS/NASA/LANDSAT-8 Image caption This satellite image has been coloured to highlight the lava lake Satellite pictures confirm there...
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US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Trucks line up at an incinerator in the US where rubbish burning is often...
Climate change: Antarctic Peninsula ‘can still avoid irreversible change’
Image copyright Maxar DigitalGlobe Image caption The Wilkins Ice Shelf underwent a series of fragmentation events from the late 2000s...
Climate change: Heatwave made ‘at least’ five times more likely by warming
Image copyright NASA Last week's record breaking heatwave across much of Europe was made "at least five times" more likely...
‘Football pitch’ of Amazon forest lost every minute
An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every single minute, according...
Night King: Australia bee fly named after Game of Thrones villain
Image copyright Alamy/CSIRO A new species of bee fly in Australia has been named after Game of Thrones villain the...
Glastonbury: Sir David Attenborough hails plastic ban
Sir David Attenborough has taken to the stage at Glastonbury to thank festival-goers for cutting their plastic use.The naturalist appeared...
Japan whaling: Commercial hunts to resume despite outcry
Image copyright Barcroft Media Japan is about to resume catching whales for profit, in defiance of international criticism. Its last...
Dragonfly: Drone helicopter to fly on Saturn’s moon, Titan
Image copyright NASA Image caption Nasa says visiting Titan could revolutionise what we known about life in the Universe Nasa...
Revealed: The secret life of the spittlebug
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Frothy 'cuckoo spit' made by the spittlebug Citizen scientists have provided a wealth of...
‘Destroyed’ Trump golf course dunes to lose special status
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Donald Trump teed off at the opening of his controversial Aberdeenshire golf course in 2012...
UN climate talks: Delegates back IPCC report without targets
Image copyright KIARA WORTH/IISD/ENB Image caption The small island states accused Saudi Arabia and others of denialism UN delegates in...
Attempts to ‘erase the science’ at UN climate talks
Image copyright IISD Image caption Ambassador Lois Young from Belize is chair of the Alliance of Small Island States Oil...
Tory hopefuls told not to squander UK science progress
Image copyright TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Image caption Will the next Prime Minister support efforts to create a high-skills, high-technology...
Bats benefit from protected farmland hedgerows
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Undisturbed hedgerows provide an important habitat for numerous bat species and their insect prey...
Greenland Ice Sheet: ‘More than 50 hidden lakes’ detected
Image copyright NASA/Goddard/Maria-José Viñas Image caption Meltwater from on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet can make its way to...
‘Jet in a box’ powers remote Halley Antarctic base
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionProf David Vaughan: "This is still a prototype system. If the turbine...
Nasa puts up deep-space atomic clock
Image copyright Reuters Image caption This was only the third time a Falcon Heavy had flown Nasa has put a...
