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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
In 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried a 35mm motion…
The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, the largest documented volcanic…
When a dead whale sinks to the seafloor, its 'whale fall' becomes an oasis feeding…
Scientists say the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse with very little additional…
Point Nemo sits so far from any coastline that the closest humans to it are often the…
An exoplanet with a daytime temperature hot enough to vaporize iron has methane on its…
Flamingos are not born pink: chicks hatch a dull grey and only slowly take on their…
A blue whale has the largest heart of any animal, but the first recording ever made of…
A survey of 64 limestone caves in Cambodia, reported in March 2026, turned up around 11…
Most people alive today will live to see the Arctic Ocean lose its summer ice
