Check out our favourite shots from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 winners

South African photographer Wim van den Heever has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award and the Urban Wildlife award for his shot “Ghost Town Visitor.” The shot depicts a brown hyena, the rarest hyena species in the world, visiting...

There’s Always a Bigger Fish—and Bird—as Seen in the Year’s Best Wildlife Photography

Photographer Qingrong Yang was visiting Yundang Lake near his home in Fujian province, China, when he captured the stunning scene in the photo above. Yang regularly goes to this lake to photograph feeding frenzies—when birds fly low over the...

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2025: 18 Winning Photos From London’s Natural History Museum

Synchronised Fishing, Winner, Behaviour: Birds; a ladyfish snatches its prey from a little egret’s beak; Yundang Lake, Fujian Province, China Qingrong Yang, China - Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2025 A haunting photograph of a rare hyena...

The rare and wonderful – Wildlife Photographer of the Year does it again!

Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) is always a huge highlight in the photographic calendar. Developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London, the prestigious competition always attracts the very best of the year’s wildlife...

Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

Maddie MolloyClimate & Science reporter ShareSave A brown hyena standing beside the ruins of an abandoned diamond mining settlement has earned wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. He set up his...

Ariane 6 set to deploy Copernicus Sentinel 1D on November 4

Ariane 6 set to deploy Copernicus Sentinel 1D on November 4 by Erica Marchand Paris, France (SPX) Oct 07, 2025 On November 4, 2025 at 6:03 p.m. local time in French Guiana (9:03 p.m. UTC, 10:03 p.m. CET), Arianespace plans to launch the Copernicus...

PLD Space fast-tracks MIURA 5 and sharpens Europe leadership in space access

PLD Space fast-tracks MIURA 5 and sharpens Europe leadership in space access by Hugo Ritmico Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 PLD Space says it has advanced its reusable MIURA 5 orbital launcher from concept to near-validation in just two years,...

WEATHER – EUROPE’S METEOROLOGICAL FUTURE BEGINS WITH METOP-SG-A1

Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, launched on an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana © Arianespace On 13 August 2025, Europe commenced a...

Rare clean room bacterium survives by playing dead UH team finds

Rare clean room bacterium survives by playing dead UH team finds by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 A University of Houston team reports that a rare bacterium found in NASA spacecraft assembly clean rooms can evade detection by...

Indigenous People from Amapá Win UN Sustainability Award with Açaí Project

The sustainable management of açaí by Indigenous people from Oiapoque (AP) won the 2025 Equator Prize from the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), being the only Brazilian project selected in this edition. Entitled "Nature for Climate...

Guyana a gateway to more than 400 million consumers across Latin America & C’bean – Go-Invest Head

The International Business Conference (IBC) 2025 continued on Wednesday with an emphatic message from Guyana’s Chief Investment Officer, Dr. Peter Ramsaroop, who underscored that Guyana’s rising investment profile must be viewed not in isolation...

Amazon rainforest trees are getting bigger due to climate change: What a new study says

The average size of trees in the Amazon rainforest has been steadily increasing due to the rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, according to a new study. The trees are increasing in size by more than three per cent every ten...

Crossing the Atlantic – athlete and climate advocate Michael Walther paddling from Europe to South America

Michael Walther is currently crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddleboard (SUP). The transatlantic paddleboard journey highlights marine conservation, with Gebrüder Weiss providing logistics and communications support. This Saturday,...

Tanzania charts course for global sustainable skies

DAR ES SALAAM: THE aviation industry is one of the world’s most dynamic and interconnected sectors, driving trade, tourism, cultural exchange and economic growth. It spans air transport for passengers and cargo, aircraft manufacturing, airport...

Discover bold ideas at TEDxLoughboroughUniversity

Loughborough is proud to host TEDxLoughboroughUniversity, a day of thought-provoking talks taking place on 8 November in Loughborough Students’ Union. The theme of the event, ‘The World Can’t Wait’, will explore a broad range of contemporary...

Arianespace to launch EU’s Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite on November 4, 2025, with Ariane 6

On November 4, 2025 at 6:03 p.m. local time, Arianespace will launch the Sentinel-1D satellite with Ariane 6 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The mission, designated VA265, will be the third commercial flight for Ariane 6, the new...

Surinamese banana exports back in focus for Europe

"We are a 'price maker' in the region and we would like to keep it that way," says Nitesh Ramlakhan, Director of Production Operations at Food and Agriculture Industries (FAI). As Suriname's only banana plantation, the company occupies a unique...

The Brutality Of 19th-Century Prisons

Prior to the American Revolutionary War, which ran from 1775 to 1783, the United States criminal justice system was less about punishment and reform and more about embarrassment. It was reportedly common for non-capital offenders to be branded,...

Our six-country tour ends

Features Newsday 8 Hrs Ago Dancers perform at the Aljibe Tango show in Argentina. - Photo by Mark Lyndersay JAN WESTMAAS CONCLUSION WE had to fill out forms and receive QR codes or some sort of online approval at least eight times, simply to enter...

Sentinel-1D set to launch this November on Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket

The satellite will lift off aboard Ariane 6 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, heading to a polar orbit approximately 700 kilometres above Earth. This launch marks a significant step in ensuring the continuity and resilience of...