One of the most poignant stories filmed for Planet Earth II was the tale of the birdcatcher tree (Pisonia grandis) – known locally as the mapou tree. Pisonia grows on remote islands all across ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent ... will be able to make images of the interior of our planet, just like a hospital doctor can "see" through ...

Earth’s mantle behaves like a slow-moving ... there is more explaining to do. “These two large islands are surrounded by a graveyard of tectonic plates which have been transported there ...

Since Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, conquering the world's highest peak has been a goal of almost every mountaineer on the planet ... islands are ...