The Isle of Skye in Scotland is a beautiful island, with a magnificent landscape that is steeped in history and enchantment. And now, to add to this sense of ancient history, geologists have discovered evidence that a meteorite hit the Isle of Skye around 60 million years ago. The scientists were analysing volcanic rocks on …

Scientists have produced a stunning visualisation of Greenland – without its ice cover. It is made from decades of survey data that show the position and shape of the territory’s bedrock, and the surrounding seafloor. This is critical information needed to understand how the huge island might respond to a warming world. Were all the …

Nasa is set to make a major announcement about a breakthrough in its alien-planet-hunting project. The space agency is holding a live-stream event today at 1:00pm ET (6:00pm GMT) to reveal a discovery about potentially habitable worlds made by its Kepler telescope. The satellite has been searching the stars for distant worlds using Google’s AI …

In their beautiful new book, Wise Trees, American landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel showcase a gorgeous selection of some of the world’s oldest and wisest trees. All of these wonderful trees have a remarkable story to tell us and have inspired change in humanity. Diane and Len spent two years travelling the globe …

A warming, rapidly changing Arctic is the “new normal” and shows no signs of returning to the reliably frozen region of the past. This is according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Arctic Report Card. Director of the administration’s Arctic Researcher Program, Dr Jeremy Mathis, said the region did a great service to …