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While most coverage of Norway’s Rogfast tunnel focuses on the record it will hold, the world’s longest and deepest undersea road tunnel, the real story engineers are dealing with sits underground, in rock that has spent millions of years being crushed, fractured and folded into some of the most unpredictable terrain along the entire Norwegian…

During a brutal drought in Tanzania back in 1993, one elephant’s memory ended up making the difference between life and death for her entire family. Researchers tracking family groups in Tarangire National Park found that herds led by older matriarchs, elephants who had lived through droughts before, left the park entirely in search of water…

There is something slightly unexpected about seeing a pink lake for the first time. In photographs, the colour can seem exaggerated, almost artificial. Standing beside one is different. The shades shift with weather, sunlight and water conditions, sometimes appearing pale rose, sometimes closer to crimson, and occasionally fading towards white. Across Australia, these lakes are…

A whale skeleton that is nearly 120 years old has returned to a museum in Hull, England. This time, visitors will be able to do more than just look at it. The 40-foot-long skeleton, made up of 168 bones, was removed from Hull Maritime Museum in 2020 for cleaning and conservation. As reported by BBC,…

For a long time, the last Neanderthals in Europe were pictured as a genetically diverse bunch, scattered across the continent right up until they disappeared. New DNA evidence tells a very different story. Researchers have found that Neanderthals actually went through a severe population crash around 75,000 years ago, one so extreme that only a…

Long before satellites, weather radars and computer models transformed cyclone forecasting, communities across the Pacific relied on nature itself for early warning signs. In Fiji, many Indigenous farmers still observe the behaviour of plants, insects, birds and the sea to anticipate severe weather months before cyclone season begins. While modern forecasting remains essential, traditional ecological…

Greenland’s ice sheet lost an estimated 105 billion tonnes of ice during the 2024–25 season. On its own, that figure is large enough to attract attention. Yet the number is only part of what researchers have been watching. Across sections of the ice sheet, particularly during late summer, satellite images have revealed growing areas of…

There is something slightly unusual about an island sitting inside a lake. Unlike ocean islands, these pieces of land are enclosed by freshwater, often hidden within vast inland landscapes that many people never associate with islands at all. Some are remote wildernesses, others support towns, roads and centuries-old communities. A few are so large that…

Off the coast of Key West, a crew of treasure divers just pulled up something that had not come out of the water in almost thirty years. Working the wreck site of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank in a hurricane back in 1622, divers with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions recovered…

Most people picture Switzerland’s mountain tunnels as an engineering flex, a way to shrink travel time between cities. But the real story behind this vast underground network is less about convenience and more about climate. Since the 1990s, Switzerland has been quietly pulling truck traffic off its fragile Alpine roads and pushing it underground onto…