Carbon and the carbon cycle

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Where do we find sodium chloride in nature and why do we enjoy it in food so much?

The elevator pitch made this trip sound very glamorous, but it’s nearing 43ºC and I’ve been stooping around in the desert for over an hour, eyes fixed on the arid earth. We’re in the Turkana Basin in

Beneath the vast Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, there’s a weird world unlike any other

On a summer’s day, your garden is full of activity, with hoverflies, butterflies and bees flying from flower to flower. But that is only one slice of the action on your plot. In the ground beneath you

Soils are the world’s most pervasive ecosystems, and arguably its most complex and important. They’re home to more than half the planet’s species. But they’re also one of the ecosystems we know the le