Carl Smith

In his lab on Germany’s tallest peak, Hannes Vogelmann measures the minute fluctuations of water vapour in the upper atmosphere to better understand how we’re changing Earth’s climate.

Scientists at CERN are making one of the most explosive substances known to humans. Unravelling its secrets could help us understand how the Universe exists.

See how a prized and contentious early human fossil is stored — and meet the scientist who developed a deep bond with it.

Among idyllic French villages and rolling fields, midnight convoys ferry enormous mysterious objects to construct the world’s biggest fusion reactor. What’s going on there?

Meet the woman tracking ocean acidification in the Pacific — a rising danger that could destroy marine life and livelihoods.

The Fiji crested iguana — also known as Vokai — is one of the country’s most treasured species. You can see a picture of it on the country’s $5 bill and on the back of every dollar coin. But not only is it critically endangered, its native habitat is dwindling.

Inside the Pacific’s gene bank, thousands of crop varieties are propagated, to prepare for the spread of new agricultural diseases and the impact of a changing climate. Some seedlings are the last of their kind.

From deep within a mountain in Italy, scientists hope increasingly sophisticated experiments are closing in on the hidden matter of the universe.

On an isolated island in the Federated States of Micronesia, community and invited scientists are attempting a monitor lizard eradication program to protect nesting turtles.

For thousands of years, the people of Ulithi atoll have managed their reef atoll ecosystem, but as the outside world has pushed in, their way of life and traditions have been thrown off-kilter. Now, in a unique collaboration with scientists, the people of Ulithi are fighting back.