Our resilient hunter-gatherer ancestors contended with wild animals, tsunamis and the watery separation of Britain from mainland Europe, shares historian Mike Pitts. Discover what life was like for the first humans in Britain.

On April 9, the largest of all penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) were officially moved from threatened to endangered status by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The European Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that the area of Arctic sea ice in March reached its lowest extent in at least 47 years.

Global sea ice hit a new record low in February, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. This data, which includes the extent of sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic, is based on records dating back to the late 1970s.

Satellite data reveals that the world's frozen oceans, which play a key role in regulating the planet's temperature, now have less ice than ever recorded before.