Science pictures

An onshore pipeline ruptured along the California coast, spewing crude oil onto pristine beaches.

David Sim May 21, 2015

Up to 300 people, many of them foreigners, are believed to have been buried by an avalanche in Langtang.

David Sim May 07, 2015

Getty Images photographers Chris McGrath and David Ramos capture people trying to rebuild their lives in the rubble of Kathmandu.

David Sim May 05, 2015

People in remote regions of Nepal have had to walk 20 miles or more over mountainous paths to get help.

David Sim May 01, 2015

A teenager has been rescued from the rubble of a hotel in Kathmandu, five days after the earthquake.

David Sim Apr 30, 2015

Entire villages have been reduced to piles of stone and splintered wood.

David Sim Apr 29, 2015

Calbuco volcano erupts, with lightning crackling in a dark sky turned reddish orange by the explosion.

David Sim Apr 24, 2015

IBTimesUK celebrates Hubble's quarter-century with 25 of the best images captured by the space telescope.

David Sim Apr 22, 2015

Young trees are pruned and trained as they grow over moulds to create beautiful furniture.

David Sim Apr 22, 2015

Reuters photojournalist Lucy Nicholson flew over southern California to see the effects of the historic drought.

David Sim Apr 15, 2015

Huge tanks under Tokyo form the world's largest underground flood diversion facility.

David Sim Apr 08, 2015

Malnourished sea lion pups are getting stranded on California beaches in record numbers.

David Sim Mar 31, 2015

The heaviest rainfall in 80 years has caused flooding in the Atacama region of Chile and landslides in Peru.

David Sim Mar 27, 2015

In this gallery, IBTimesUK looks at sinkholes and craters that have opened up around the world.

David Sim Mar 25, 2015

People who have plentiful access to water are encouraged to try not turning on their taps all day.

David Sim Mar 20, 2015

Radioactive rubbish sits in blue and black plastic sacks in Fukushima four years after the tsunami.

David Sim Mar 09, 2015

Artists and designers in China have begun responding to Beijing's dangerous levels of air pollution.

David Sim Mar 04, 2015

Manhattan is surrounded by ice, while Central Park looks like a polar ice cap.

David Sim Feb 25, 2015

A heavy winter storm has dumped snow on Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.

David Sim Feb 20, 2015

A snow storm in Istanbul grounds planes, halts traffic, and forces closure of Bosphorus Strait.

David Sim Feb 18, 2015

A chemical explosion at a warehouse spread a large orange toxic cloud over five towns in Catalonia.

David Sim Feb 12, 2015

The US government has taken a tentative step towards allowing commercial development of the moon.

David Sim Feb 03, 2015

The second major snow storm in less than a week pummels Chicago, Detroit and Boston.

David Sim Feb 03, 2015

Lone individuals made their way across quiet city streets in the aftermath of 'Snowpocalypse'.

David Sim Jan 27, 2015

In his State of the Union speech, Obama advised astronaut Scott Kelly to Instagram everything.

David Sim Jan 21, 2015

All 15 years from 2000 were in top 20 warmest. The odds of that are 1.5 million billion to one.

David Sim Jan 19, 2015

Much of Britain has been turned into a winter wonderland, with roads and fields blanketed with snow.

David Sim Jan 15, 2015