Environment

Polar lights (aurora polaris) are a natural phenomenon found in both the northern and southern hemispheres that can be truly awe inspiring. Northern lights are also called by their scientific ...

With the acceleration of food-tech, lab-grown meat (as opposed to plant-based meat) is having its moment, bidding to replicate the taste and consistency of traditional meat. Many expect the move ...

If you look inside a rattlesnake rattle, you’ll find it’s actually hollow. Instead of shaking loose bits like a maraca to make that famous sound, rattlesnakes are actually ...

It might look like a scene from another planet, but Kakaban Lake is found on earth, on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo. The lake’s isolated position and mix ...

You would think that this is no time to plan new artistic productions with theatres shut and a stricter lockdown just around the corner. Yet where there’s a will, ...

This video presents the dedicated men who care for the most trafficked mammal in the world – the pangolin. Committed minders from the The Tikki Hywood Trust in Zimbabwe work hard ...

We all have phones and therefore we all have cameras. We can take a picture, edit it, post it, feel proud of it, so what makes a photographer a photographer? ...

Why is it that cheetahs can run so fast – up to 70mph? And how can humans get to be that fast? In this fascinating look at the way form determines ...

Oysters are good for more than just eating on the half shell: in New York City, they’re helping restore and preserve the harbour. This is due to the fact ...

For years, listening to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Year concert on January 1 was a family tradition. One that my grandfather started because of his great love for classical ...

Two-thirds of the world’s population faces an extreme water shortage at least one month a year. Many of these places are dry, arid deserts with no reliable source of ...

It’s a well-known play, a comedy with a message loved by many, which was even turned into a popular film. Frances Veber’s The Dinner Game, originally titled Le ...

Earthquakes, scalding jets of steam from new cracks in the ground, a receding lava lake… Since April 2018, scientists had noticed signs that Hawaii’s Kilauea, one of the world’s ...

Sharks are some of the animal kingdom’s most feared hunters, thanks to a special sixth sense… electroreception. There are two ways animals use electroreception. They either use their own ...

Tapper Bar in Limassol enters the new year with an exhibition, the first solo show of artist Yeti. From January 6 to 16, Yeti will showcase paintings and ceramics from his most ...

With Thailand’s car manufacturing industry essential to its economy, the push towards more widespread adoption of electric vehicles poses both green opportunities and challenges. It could certainly be instrumental ...

Mauritius is a small island with a big ocean state. Fringed by a ring of coral reefs, its lagoons attract millions of tourists and provide a livelihood for more than 2,200 ...