SCIENCE

This year's 22 award-winning images include a 3D model of a pig's eyeball, a parrot's intricate system of blood vessels and a visualisation of tweets about breast cancer.

Black and white colouration is rarely seen in nature and has posed a long-standing problem for researchers.

Cold water sinks – but in in the polar seas, what goes down must come up.

WHO claims quarter of all global deaths of children under five caused by filthy environment.

Interactive quiz marks 37th anniversary of opening of Komodo National Park in Indonesia.

Car manufacturer pledged to cut its emissions following the scandal

Arrival of the gas also leaves questions over fracking in the UK

Nasa believes a magnetic field around Mars could help further human exploration and colonisation.

'It's time for America to go back to the Moon and this time to stay,' Bezos said.

IBTimes UK visits Tete province, where World Vision is assisting a drought-stricken population.

The forests include abundant populations of many species including tigers, leopards, elephants, bears.

The Batagaika crater is a megaslump that continues growing.

Notorious Boniface Matthew Mariango sentenced in Tanzania on #WorldWildlifeDay in 'major breakthrough'.

Supercontinents are fascinating subjects for scientists, but remain a source of intense debate.

IBTimes UK lists the coolest of Nasa's now freely available software.

The world's wildlife is under threat - but you can help.

Analysis of 4,300-year-old mammoth fossil from Wrangel Island shows excess of detrimental mutations.

The patterns of trees growing in the Amazon are 'ancient footprints' of the communities that cultivated them hundreds of years ago.

Shark which normally stays in tropical water washed up on Devon beach.

Bees adapting to abundance of plastic in environment but it's unlikely to lead to successful nests.

A team of scientists has stumbled upon the stunning creature while exploring the Utu Seamount.

The polar region is seen as a 'canary in the coal mine' for global climate change.

The new plastic will be made from waste such as sawdust, farm crop residues or old cardboard instead of petroleum.

Zoo authorities said the reptile died from internal haemorrhaging after being pummelled with large rocks.

Pyrethroids are used in many household bug sprays, lice treatments and agricultural insecticides.

Predatory fish are now largely absent from coral reefs but they could be successfully reintroduced at 'super-sites'.

Humans have inadvertently created hundreds of new minerals. As we aren't anywhere else in the universe, they probably aren't either.

Water pumping is not immediately threatening the monument, but decades of accumulated impact is.

In some of the oldest sedimentary rocks in the world, scientists have found remains of microfossils.