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Our Changing Planet returns to BBC One

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A year on from the first ambitious environmental series, Our Changing Planet returns to BBC One this Sunday, to continue to document how Earth’s most vulnerable habitats are responding, year on year, to increasing environmental threats as part of the corporation’s seven-year, natural history project. In the two hour-long episodes, six presenters – Liz Bonnin, Steve Backshall, Chris … Read more

Sea sparkle and where to see it

Sea sparkle glowing at Penmon Point Anglesey in a photo by Kris Williams

Sea sparkle – or bioluminescent plankton – is a magical blue light, made famous in Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The Beach, and whilst it usually occurs in tropical waters such as those around the Maldives islands, it made headlines recently on BBC Earth when a display was captured off the shore of North Wales. How to find … Read more