Science pictures

A destructive wave of viscous red mud has all but erased the village of Bento Rodrigues.

The death toll is expected to rise after a powerful earthquake struck a remote area of north-eastern Afghanistan.

Climate change can be good for some species but which will be the winners?

Reuters photographer Denis Balibouse photographs the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps.

These photos of Australia taken by Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly look like abstract paintings.

Photographs of the ghost town of Pripyat abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

Torrential rain causes flash flooding in the US and France and there is a deadly landslide in Guatemala.

Hazardous smog has blanketed parts of northern Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.

Skygazers around the world were treated to a blood supermoon, caused by the convergence of two astronomical phenomena.

The Kinugawa River burst its banks after Tropical Storm Etau brought two months of rain in just 48 hours.

The unseasonal clouds of dust killed two people in Lebanon and injured hundreds more.

July 2015 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. And 2015 is on course to be the warmest year.

Thousands of dead fish have been found in the Haihe River, stoking fears over a leak of toxic chemicals.

Before-and-after satellite photos and aerial imagery show the scale of the devastation.

Endless drought is seeing California suffer one of the worst fire seasons in its history.

Photographing meteor showers can be tricky. You need the right equipment and no small amount of luck to get the best shots.

The death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers reach remote flooded areas in Myanmar.

First observed in the 70s, there are almost 4,000 sinkholes along the shores of the salty sea today.

IBTimesUK presents a gallery of mass gatherings around the globe to mark World Population Day 2015.

The Yellow Sea turns green as a thick carpet of algae covers the beaches of Shangdong Province, eastern China.

Guiyu in southern China's Guangdong province is one of the world's largest electronic waste dump sites.

Karachi mortuaries at bursting point as fatalities increase during intense heatwave.

A tiger that escaped from a flooded zoo in Georgia has killed one man and wounded another.

China has taken millions of high-polluting vehicles off the roads and they now lie in huge scrap yards.

One in every 150 children born is albino on these islands off the Caribbean coast of Panama.

An alarm clock that tips you out of bed, cars that park vertically and a hat that is also a comb are among the list.

Widespread fear over South Korea's MERS outbreak triggers shortages of surgical face masks.

Aerial photographs showing some of the ecological challenges faced by our planet.

Photos illustrate the link between environmental and social issues such as climate change and poverty.

China is the world's largest consumer and producer of tobacco, and smoking is woven into the fabric of Chinese culture.