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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
In January 2025, the loudest gravitational wave ever recorded hid a second signal…
On 29 April 2020, a single bolt of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas…
Satellites can now tell a palm oil plantation from native rainforest by the precise…
In the early 1960s, mother bald eagles across the United States were crushing their own…
When an iceberg roughly the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s George VI Ice…
In 1987, Costa Rica's forest cover had collapsed to roughly 21% of the country, and the…
Less than a third of the world's ocean floor has been mapped to modern standards…
Scientists have directly observed less than 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor
The spider hides by pretending to be the fungus that kills its neighbors, and it took…
A blind, pale salamander in the caves of Slovenia can survive a decade without eating…
