The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Toyota has revealed a futuristic EV concept called the Baby Lunar Cruiser that’s meant to drive on both the Earth and the Moon.

Eight years have elapsed since Pope Francis released “Laudato Si,” his encyclical urging “care for our common home.” Though hailed as an eloquent plea to protect the environment, climate change was just one part of the pope’s message, from encouraging solidarity with the poor to criticizing “blind confidence” in technology.

Well, what on earth happened there? Waking up this morning on day two of this World Cup to find their nightmarish, nine-wicket mauling by New Zealand was no dream, that is the question England must have been asking, longing for the video-gamer's temptation: pause, quit, restart.

Cargill and ADM led push to weaken new protections for threatened ecosystems in South America, report says

Teesdale, North Pennines: Before the plough returns, there’s time to enjoy field pansy and cut-leaved cranesbill, thriving in bare earth

Earth’s ocean is incredibly vast. Some parts of it are so remote that the nearest human habitation is the International Space Station.

“This result challenges our previous knowledge of pulsars," study author says

In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next century at one in six.

Prime minister’s move criticised as ‘salting the earth’ so Birmingham-Crewe line cannot be built

Plants are among the most intrepid explorers on Earth. Roughly 460 million years ago, the first plants started leaving lakes and rivers and appeared on land. At that time, the surface of Earth was mostly bare rock.

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?