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Earth & Life
In the early 1960s, mother bald eagles across the United States were crushing their…
Earth & Life
In 1987, Costa Rica's forest cover had collapsed to roughly 21% of the country, and…
Earth & Life
Point Nemo sits so far from any coastline that the closest humans to it are often…
Earth & Life
In 1971, a team of Soviet geologists in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert set a…
Earth & Life
Beneath the Antarctic ice, a lake the size of Lake Ontario has been sealed off from…
Science & Engineering
In 1946, a captured German V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried Clyde…
Earth & Life
Singapore's Marina Barrage transformed a polluted tidal estuary into a freshwater…
Earth & Life
The Strait of Malacca and Singapore Strait grow so shallow in places that fully…
Earth & Life
Seahorses, giant clams and even the occasional dugong have been recorded in the…
Earth Observation
The Singapore Strait funnels roughly a third of the world's traded goods through a…
Earth & Life
The most remote spot in the world is so remote that the nearest humans are often…
Earth & Life
The Pacific Ocean is so vast that every continent, every island, and every desert…
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There is more freshwater locked inside the rocks of Earth's mantle than in every…
Earth & Life
Sequoia and redwood trees alive today were already mature when the Roman Empire was…
Earth & Life