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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
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…
In the Amazon canopy a newly named spider called Taczanowskia waska was found mimicking…
Two species of sharks, including hammerheads, live inside the active crater of an…
