Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph
Cave diver exploring Chan Aktun HaMartin Broen The Yucatán peninsula in south-east Mexico is riddled with holes. When a giant asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago near what is…
Cave diver exploring Chan Aktun HaMartin Broen The Yucatán peninsula in south-east Mexico is riddled with holes. When a giant asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago near what is…
Seoul’s gingko trees help absorb the carbon dioxide produced by traffickhanh nghia tran/Alamy Becoming EarthFerris Jabr (Picador (UK); Penguin Random House (US)) Ginkgos were first planted in Seoul about 800…
Australia’s red-winged parrot feeding in fields in the Northern TerritoryRoland Seitre/naturepl.com Living On EarthPeter Godfrey-Smith (William Collins (UK, out now); Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (US, 3 September)) IN 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith…
DnA/Design and Architecture This epic image (pictured above) shows an inventive reincarnation of an abandoned Chinese quarry as an open-air library. Enclosed bookshelves line the stone, and concrete stairs have…
SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, which carries astronauts to the International Space Station, experienced a rare failure Thursday night after blasting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on an uncrewed…
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent an unexpected Fourth of July aboard the International Space Station — but it was hardly a patriotic display of engineering prowess.The two NASA…
The concept of the Anthropocene was born at a scientific meeting in Mexico in 2000, conjured by chemist and Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen. “We aren’t in the Holocene any more,…
Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear a “noise in the air that sounds like a…
In her new book, Entropy, photographer Diane Tuft explores the damage that a warmer climate will have on bodies of water. The Great Salt Lake in Utah (pictured above) is…
How AI and innovative technology are helping countries to protect ocean life – CBS News Watch CBS News More than 100 nations have agreed to protect 30% of the world’s…