Science pictures

IBTimes UK presents a gallery of photos of supermoon sightings from around the world.

Operation IceBridge airborne laboratory allows scientists to study the effects of climate change on sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets.

Using satellite images from 2001 and 2016, we can see how 10 of California's lakes and reservoirs have shrunk during the 21st century.

What was once a tiny dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has grown to 12 times its original size.

Advances in satellite technology have yielded extraordinarily detailed images of our planet, allowing us to see how everything on Earth is connected.

Judges selected winners that exemplified artistic quality as well as exceptional scientific technique.

Help choose the best microscope images, from a centipede's fearsome poison fangs to dung-dwelling fungi.

Award-winning photographers capture the quiet, majestic beauty of the night sky.

Although the competition is only in its first year, more than 800 photographs from around the world were submitted.

Fires in Indonesia cause an annual crisis that blankets large parts of the region in choking smog.

Roughly 5,000 people are involved in post-quake operations as the search for survivors continues.

The quake struck at 3:36am and was felt across central Italy.

IBTimes UK looks back at photographs taken worldwide in July 2016, the hottest month ever recorded.

What started as a small brush fire has exploded to cover more than 40 square miles of mountain and desert east of LA.

All that remains of many homes is burnt patio furniture and skeletal remains of cars leaking molten metal onto driveways.

'Happy Dying' invites participants to take part in their own pretend funeral.

The bodies are thought to be the remains of Cylon supporters, following the failed coup in 632 BC.

Extremely hot, dry weather is hampering efforts of 5,300 firefighters and 16 helicopters.

An aeroplane powered by energy from the sun has arrived in Egypt, its penultimate stop.

Our oceans hold over 150 million tons of plastics and may contain more plastic than fish by 2050.

One gram of coca paste is worth about 2,000 Colombian pesos (about 45p or $0.64).

Flooding caused by heavy rain has devastated the towns of Triftern and Simbach am Inn.

People of Braunsbach in south-western Germany have begun to remove rubble and mud from streets and homes.

Demonstrators dangled from bridges and broke into a mine in protest against dirty energy.

In this gallery, IBTimesUK looks at sinkholes and craters have suddenly opened up around the world.

The wildfire raging near Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, has moved south, forcing more evacuations after 88,000 people fled their homes.

IBTimes UK looks back to a different era, when cigarettes were actually advertised as being good for us.

The 198-room building had been condemned by authorities but remained occupied.

Horn of Africa endures famine and hunger as severe drought ravages land.

Twelve towering pyres of elephant tusks will be set alight in the largest single destruction of ivory in history.