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We celebrated Earth Day this week, and the science news was filled with troubling implications for the pale blue dot we call home.Topping the list was…
Some stars and constellations are ever-present in the night sky; Polaris, for example, has served as a steady guiding light for millennia in the Northern Hemisphere.But…
QUICK FACTSMilestone: Chernobyl partially melts downDate: April 26, 1986Where: Chernobyl, UkraineOn April 26, 1986, operators at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were running a test to…
Catastrophic water shortages are in store for the 40 million people living in areas fed by the Colorado River, even if cities in the region such…
Building a giant dam between Russia and Alaska might save a key Atlantic current that is crucial to regulating the climate in northern Europe. However, that…
Eight U.S. East Coast cities are at high or very high risk of “extreme” flood damage based on current scenarios, with New York and New Orleans…
On a hot Saturday in San Antonio over 10 years ago, an 8-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after days of fever, headache, vomiting and…
QUICK FACTSName: Thríhnúkagígur, or Three Peaks CraterLocation: Southwest IcelandCoordinates: 63.9984, -21.6989Why it’s incredible: The volcano hosts the world’s only magma chamber that’s accessible to humans.Thríhnúkagígur is…
El Niño is forecast to return as early as May, which could bring above-normal temperatures to almost everywhere on Earth, according to a new report.El Niño…
Humans migrated to South America in three distinct waves over the course of thousands of years, a new large-scale analysis of Indigenous Americans’ DNA reveals. The…
