Here’s a look at five of the smelliest flowers in the world and why they smell the way they do.

The plant uses this scent to mimic a rotting corpse, attracting pollinators that feed on flesh and lay eggs, such as carrion ...

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...

Discover the excruciating sting of the Gympie Gympie, a plant notorious for causing unbearable pain, and learn how to stay ...

It's home to the largest sewage treatment facility in Europe.

The city created a dedicated email to receive the complaints, which shot up in the second half of 2025.

Even 25% increase in meat and dairy consumption would require 100m more acres of agricultural land, analysis says ...

Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pesticide that could cause ...

One year on from Putricia’s bloom, Adelaide is officially on corpse flower watch. One of the world’s rarest (and stinkiest) ...

Poo on the beach, in the ocean and even in the ice-cream. You’d think a place so besmirched by bad press would keep the ...

An explosion at a factory in China's Inner Mongolia region killed two people and left 66 others hospitalized on Sunday.

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.