Would you try the Icelandic bread baked with lava?
Iceland’s unique climate is one of the most famous on the planet, with its volcanoes, lakes and hot springs all wildly popular tourist attractions. B...
Iceland’s unique climate is one of the most famous on the planet, with its volcanoes, lakes and hot springs all wildly popular tourist attractions. B...
A new sheriff has slithered into town. Earlier this week came the exciting news that researchers in the Amazon Rainforest have discovered a new...
Have you ever heard of the Amazon’s Boiling River, or Shanay-Timpishka, whose scalding hot water kills almost anything that enters?...
You might think wallabies were only found in the wild in Australia. They are, after all, the name for the nation’s rugby union team. Yet after a g...
The brilliantly named silky anteater is the smallest in the world, weighing in at an average of 10 ounces. Found in Central and South America, they...
The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park weighs 2,000 tons. Located only a 90-minute drive from Fresno, California, it’s the largest, h...
Seventy-one years ago today, London was plunged into the ‘Great Smog’. Over the course of the next five days, some 4,000 people would die as a dir...
They might be less famous than their ground-dwelling cousins, but this is the tree kangaroo. Native to the rainforests of New Guinea and also found on...
Point Nemo, or the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, is the place in the world where you are furthest from land. There’s really nothing there except p...
Meet the indri lemur, also known as a babakoto. This funny-looking creature is the largest lemur in the world and sadly it's critically endangered. ...
Since the 1990s, an area of northern Thailand has provided refuge for injured and rescued elephants. Open to the public, the Elephant Nature Park is a...
There are plenty of fish in the sea – an estimated 3.5 trillion of them, it turns out – but only one can claim to be the deepest dwelling of them all...