Our planet’s air during the preindustrial period was not quite as pristine as you might think,…
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‘Get scared’: World’s scientists say disastrous climate change is here
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the latest — and starkest…
New Signs Indicate a Major Ocean Current Is on The Edge of Collapse Right Now
If Earth had a pulse, it might be The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) – a…
Gigantic meteorite impact in Ukraine dated to 65 million years ago
Everyone’s familiar with the demise of the dinosaurs thanks to a massive asteroid that slammed into…
Earth’s fifth ocean just confirmed
The earth has finally attained popular recognition for its fifth ocean. A decision by the national…
Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts
We can now add “being fired out of a gun at high speeds” to the growing…
‘Living Fossil’ Thought Extinct For 273 Million Years Found Thriving on Ocean Floor
A symbiotic relationship between two marine lifeforms has just been discovered thriving at the bottom of…
Tarantulas Are Basically All Over The Planet, And Scientists Can Finally Explain Why
Few spiders elicit as much reaction from humans as the famous and feared tarantula. These giant,…
Earth nearly lost all its oxygen 2.3 billion years ago
A new study pushes the permanent rise of oxygen in the atmosphere to 100 million years…
NASA Now Has Direct Evidence Humans Cause Global Warming
Now, NASA has calculated individual impacts on climate change and can definitively share humans’ role in…
Scientists built a perfectly self-replicating synthetic cell
Scientists have crafted a single-celled synthetic organism that divides and multiplies just like the real thing.…
Direct Observations by NASA Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth’s Energy Budget off Balance
Earth is on a budget – an energy budget. Our planet is constantly trying to balance…