A notoriously stubborn agricultural waste product, rice husk is being repurposed as a sturdy and resilient construction material.
Deception Island is a "spectacular amphitheatre of penguinness". Amid rusting industrial remains on a flooded active volcano, these photos reveal a rare winner of climate change.
The ex-Little Mix star worked with Hans Zimmer on an official track for the BBC nature documentary.
From a fitness-obsessed bear to a rather rude orangutan, here are 10 of the most amusing photos of the animal kingdom this year.
In the past decade, many more great white sharks are being seen in Canada's Atlantic waters. What's drawing them so far north?
More than 70 million specimens from 100 UK collections will be put into an online digital museum
Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, Vermont's virtual power plant has become its largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy.
A survivor of the shipwreck that inspired the novel Moby Dick had a theory about how a sperm whale could destroy a vessel many times its size – 200 years later, he's been proved right.
Marjorie, 6, had a BIG question for astronaut Tim Peake ahead of his visit to Lincoln
