Mexican plants could break code on gibberish manuscript
Pictures in the undecipherable Voynich manuscript look like 16th century Mexican plants and could be key to translating it, but some still say it's a hoax
Volcano kills 16 – after they were told it was safe
It has been erupting on and off for months, but Indonesia's Mount Sinabung has now killed for the first time, claiming at least 16 lives
The Borneo Hills diet: Pitcher plants' strange prey
Instead of catching insects, some carnivorous pitcher plants target much bigger animals – but not to eat them. Stephanie Pain finds a surprise on the menu
A new green Enlightenment will define our age
Far from being anti-science, environmentalism is the future in a world of finite resources and global perils, concludes Joachim Radkau in The Age of Ecology
We're drilling back in time to tell a tale of the sea
The rocks beneath the South China Sea may reveal how oceans first formed and yield millions of years of climate history, says geologist Jian Lin
Return of the bat: European species make a comeback
Defying years of shrinking habitat and disappearing roosts, bat numbers are on the rise again in Europe, a comprehensive survey reports
Black bloom in the Atlantic skirts Brazil's coast
What is this ominous dark stain, captured in a satellite photo, stretching nearly 800 kilometres along Brazil's coast to São Paulo?
Mud dump in Great Barrier Reef park could choke life
A plan to dump 5 million tonnes of sludge from the expansion of a coal shipping port into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has got the go-ahead
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