Science & Environment

Environment

View more

Space

View more

Climate

View more

BBC Ideas: A(very) short guide to the Universe

Inside Science

View all 688 available episodes

From our Science Editor Rebecca Morelle

BBC InDepth

View more

Latest Updates

  1. The sun on he horizon behind an oil and gas platform in the North Sea. The sea is calm and the whole scene is a vivid orange colour.

  2. Runners set off from the snowy starting line in full thermal gear and goggles

  3. A man wearing a hat and scarf is walking in front of a very large painting depicting trees

  4. A large area with trees planted in it, and plastic around the tree stumps. There is a field in the distance. Fence posts are also in the distance. The trees are surrounded by foliage. A large number of people are walking through the area.

  5. Steph Robinson is a white British woman with bleached blonde and grey hair. She wears green framed glasses, an orange t-shirt and orange working trousers with black patches over the knee and lower legs. ffin Jordao is Portuguese with short brown hair and light olive skin. They wear an orange and black peaked cap, the same orange work t-shirt as Steph and light beige working trousers. Both sit on a bench in front of metal fencing and greenery and smile at the camera.

  6. A blue shark is suspended in crystal clear water. It has a long angle snout and a large round black eye. Its underside is white and its back is blue grey.

  7. Red panda Esha is pictured looking at the camera. The red panda is a dark brown/orange colour with white ears and nose.

  8. A blue butterfly settles on a white plant with a blurred green background.

  9. A group of people, some young students, others retired volunteers work on their hands and knees removing soil from a graveyard at the dig site.

  10. Two people digging in a hole on grass in the foreground of a church

  11. A man looks admiringly at a large white headed eagle perched close to his head

  12. A bumblebee pollinating purple flowers in a garden

  13. A pale blue butterfly sits on a white flower with small white petals with its wings spread wide.

  14. An archive black and white picture of a row of carts of strawberries

    15. Lydia Law looking directly to camera and smiling. She is wearing a white, round-necked t-shirt and has straight brown hair, worn down and reaching over her shoulders. She is seated in a hay barn, with bales of hay see behind her on the left of frame and a corrugated metal wall in the further distance.

    • A woman with glasses and a hat posing next to a bunch of bananas

    • A firefighter in a field holding a hose with the sun setting, along with a burnt field and a combine harvester on fire. Trees are in the distance. Smoke is billowing up from the machinery.

    • Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada engulfed the New York City skyline, reducing visibility and casting an orange haze over the New York City, United States on July 16, 2026.

    • A US Park Police officer sits on a motorbike in front of the Washington Monument, with American flags in the background

    • A fox cub with a large white dressing covering most of its body and around its neck. It is looking directly ahead with pricked ears and standing on a white sheet.

    • Cars and trucks of various colours queuing in a narrow street on an industrial estate. The queue stretches back as far as we can see. In the foreground is a patch of green grass. In the background are green trees.

    • A man in a green jumper and wellies is walking on Exmoor away from the camera.

    • A person wearing a dark diving suit and gloves is standing on a boat and holding up a long, corroded green metal sword-like object, possibly recovered from the seabed. The boat's wooden deck is wet, with a mesh bag and diving equipment nearby, while blue sea water and the boat's railing can be seen in the background.

    • Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace launches its Vikram-1 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, 18 July 2026