Will we be ready for the ‘big one?’

Will we be ready for the ‘big one?’

The Acraman crater, Australia (© USGS/Nasa Landsat data/Orbital Horizon/Gallo Images/Getty images)

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Where did you drop the fish, son?
30 Jun 2024Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
30 Jun 2025Asteroid Day

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9 Apr 2026Sgwd yr Eira waterfall, Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Wales
The butterfly effect
9 Nov 2024Aït Benhaddou, Morocco
5 Feb 2025Scottish Blackface sheep, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
7 Dec 2024Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England
A right royal tradition
15 Oct 2023European hedgehog
The world’s greatest oasis?
24 Sep 2024Skaftafell, Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland
29 Mar 2026British Summer Time starts
13 Nov 2024Sea lion in a kelp forest, Baja California, Mexico
9 Dec 2025Guanaco, Punta Norte, Valdés Peninsula, Argentina
13 Apr 2026International Dark Sky Week
Gateway to Iberia
Hovering over harmonious horticulture
Mists over the Amazon
31 Jul 2024Hoodoos, Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA
Night outside the museum
1 Dec 2024Antarctica Day
19 Jul 2024A young jaguar on a riverbank, Pantanal, Brazil
14 Nov 2023Russell lupines, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
America’s backyard
Perfect, pastoral Palouse
19 Oct 2025Apples ready for harvest, Minnesota, United States
23 May 2025World Turtle Day
4 May 2024Brighton Festival
20 Jun 2025Maasai giraffe mother with calf in the Serengeti, Tanzania
4 Jun 2024Chestnut-headed bee-eater, Bardia National Park, Nepal
26 Oct 2024Gespensterwald, Nienhagen, Germany