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These suddenly exploding craters in Siberia could be caused by a build up of hot gas and rising temperatures due to climate change.

Scientists Attempt to Explain Craters Exploding Out of the Earth

By Frank Landymore

Search and rescue teams are frantically searching for man, who has reportedly fallen into a crack in the Earth in Iceland.

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Man Missing After Falling Into Crack in the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain's northern coast after containers fell off a ship.

Millions of Plastic Pellets Wash Up on Shore

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists may have figured out how a massive "superstructure" of igneous rock lurking below the surface of the Pacific Ocean was formed.

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Scientists Working to Explain “Superstructures” on Ocean Floor

By Victor Tangermann

America's East Coast — particularly its major population centers — is sinking at a scarily rapid pace, a new satellite imagery study shows.

Satellites Show the East Coast Is Sinking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

That viral review of a body butter that seems to attract wolf spiders has garnered headlines being debunked -- but not everyone's convinced.

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Experts Say Popular Body Lotion Not Attracting Horny Spiders

By Noor Al-Sibai

The project in Iceland will be the first ever attempt of drilling straight into the incredibly hard to find magma beneath the Earth's surface.

Scientists Drilling Into Magma Chamber for Potentially Unlimited Energy

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have exposed the previously untracked expanse of human activity at sea using a combination of satellite imagery and AI.

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New Mapping Finds the Oceans Are Filled With “Dark Vessels”

By Victor Tangermann

In an attempt to make soybeans taste more meaty, molecular protein startup Moolec Science is inserting actual pig genes into the plants.

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Startup Says Putting Pig Genes Into Soy Made It Taste Meatier

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that wildflowers in a patch of farm meadow in the Paris region have turned to self-fertilization due to fewer insects.

Wildflowers Adapting to Insect Apocalypse by Pollinating Themselves, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

In 2019, scientists detected a strange wobble deep below the Earth's surface that repeats every 8.5 years. They just found an explanation.

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Scientists Working to Understand Strange Signal From Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

In an attempt to bring air quality down from hazardous levels, officials have begun seeding clouds to make it rain in Lahore, Pakistan.

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Pakistan Attempts to Cut Through Killer Smog With Artificial Rain

By Victor Tangermann

Local authorities in Iceland are telling people to stop visiting the volcanic eruption because the terrain is challenging and dangerous.

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Authorities Ask Tourists to Stop Flocking to Site of Volcanic Eruption

By Sharon Adarlo

In dramatic footage posted on Instagram, a massive orca spikes a hapless dolphin like it's a volleyball into the sky during a group hunt.

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Killer Whale Yeets Dolphin Into the Sky

By Sharon Adarlo

A new startup called Anmtora Energy is investigating ways to store huge amounts of energy inside boxes holding extremely hot rocks.

Scientists Intrigued By Battery That Stores Energy in Hot Rocks

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have simulated what would happen if the greenhouse effect snowballed, causing a dramatic rise in the Earth's temperature.

Scientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It’s Horrifying

By Victor Tangermann

Legislators in California are slated to approve new measures to create filtration systems that turns wastewater into drinking water.

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California Working on System to Turn Raw Sewage Into Drinking Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists now have come across strange types of rock that contain manmade plastic in all five inhabited continents.

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Scientists Warn That Plastic Rocks Are Appearing Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

Following tens of thousands of earthquakes rocking southwest Iceland, a massive volcano erupted early Tuesday morning local time.

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Massive Icelandic Volcano Erupts, Spews Lava Hundreds of Feet Into the Air

By Victor Tangermann

Many companies have recently rushed to invest billions into carbon removal technologies in order to mitigate emissions.

Billions in Funding Pouring Into Facilities for Sucking Carbon From Atmosphere

By Sharon Adarlo

While pandering to an audience of far right-wing politicians in Italy, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that fossil fuels get a bad rep.

In Startling Reversal, Elon Musk Defends Use of Fossil Fuels

By Victor Tangermann

Thomas Crowther, whose work fueled the craze around planting trees, no longer thinks it's the best way to combat carbon emissions.

Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees

By Frank Landymore

Scientists encountered the biggest solar flare recorded since 2017, which was powerful enough to knock out radio communication on Earth.

A Massive Solar Flare Just Knocked Out Radio Communications Back on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has developed a substance so hard and tough that it can go toe to toe with diamonds, the hardest material on Earth.

Scientists Create Substance Rivaling Diamonds in Hardness

By Sharon Adarlo

A dolphin has been spotted with thumb-like appendages on its flippers, because the world apparently isn't weird enough as is.

Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs

By Noor Al-Sibai

An online directory that directed people to locations where they could drop off plastic bags and film to be recycled has been shut down.

Government Program to Recycle Plastic Bags Canceled After “Abysmal Failure”

By Sharon Adarlo

Japan has officially inaugurated the world's biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor called JT-60SA just north of Tokyo.

Japan Finishes World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

An Emirati oil executive has landed in hot water after claiming that there was "no science" behind the necessity of phasing out fossil fuels.

Head of Climate Conference Who Happens to Be an Oil Exec Says Actually Fossil Fuels Are Fine

By Victor Tangermann

The pound-for-pound greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide is getting stronger as more of it is released into the atmosphere, a new study found.

Carbon Dioxide Is Becoming More Fearsome, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Two young orcas tried to save an approximately 35-year-old orca nicknamed Hunchy, who struggled to stay afloat.

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Tragic Footage Shows Orcas Trying to Save Their Dying Companion

By Frank Landymore

These mobile biological robots, or "anthrobots," have already proven that they can assemble themselves and repair damaged neurons

Scientists Build Biological Robots From Human Cells

By Frank Landymore

Computers used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies' require enormous amounts of energy and cooling that's evaporating water supplies.

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The Average Bitcoin Transaction Wastes a Full Swimming Pool of Water, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A new study suggests that massive volcanic eruptions in India killed off the dinosaurs by causing drops in global temperature.

Relatable! Scientists Say Dinosaurs Mainly Died From Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

The first-of-its-kind geothermal plant will power Google's nearby data centers and could kick start a new phase of geothermal energy.

Google Fires Up Experimental New Geothermal Plant

By Frank Landymore

At more than triple the size of New York City, the world's largest current iceberg is on the move — and scientists don't know why.

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The Word’s Largest Iceberg Is on the Move

By Noor Al-Sibai

Saudi Arabia is publicly committed to cutting carbon emissions, but it has plans to push developing countries to use its oil and gas exports.

Saudi Arabia Apparently Scheming to Get Poor Countries Addicted to Oil

By Sharon Adarlo

Avocado bloody.

Millennials’ Avocado Habit Is Killing Mexico’s Forests

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists detected an extremely high-energy cosmic ray beaming from outer space — which confusingly came from nowhere in particular.

Scientists Puzzled by High Energy Signal Coming From Seemingly Empty Space

By Victor Tangermann

New research reveals that a shocking amount of caviar products from Europe are illegal, some of it not even actual caviar.

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Scientists Test “Caviar,” Alarmed by What They Find

By Frank Landymore

This so-called nematode trapping fungus is a crafty, efficient killer that will quickly switch from prey to predator once it senses a worm.

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Scientists Intrigued by Carnivorous Fungus That Devours Worms

By Frank Landymore

Though we banned ozone depleting chemicals four decades ago, new research finds that the hole long thought to be healing may be anything but.

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The Hole in the Ozone Layer Is Getting Bigger Again, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A new study from Oxfam says the richest 1 percent of the world had the same carbon footprint in 2019 as the poorest 66 percent in the world.

Scientists Say These Villains Are Causing Way More Than Their Share of Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

A major oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is sending over 1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Oil Spill Pours Into the Gulf of Mexico

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, a group of AI and military leaders met in a secretive three-day retreat hosted at a luxury resort in the Utah mountains.

AI and Military Leaders Gathered for Mysterious Event in Utah

By Noor Al-Sibai

An engineer developed an interactive website with a 3D view of Earth and the option to see what the planet looked like in the distant past.

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Awesome Website Lets You See What Dinosaurs Lived Near Your House

By Sharon Adarlo

Did you do climate change? If so, ExxonMobil's CEO is out to find you. And while he works on that, he thinks you should worry less about oil.

Exxon Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite appearances, the amount of recent eruptions we're seeing from volcanoes is not unusual. We're just finally paying attention.

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Wave of Volcanoes Erupting Around the World is Totally Normal, Experts Assure

By Frank Landymore

Researchers in China discovered that microplastics could be affecting the formation of the clouds they're found in.

Microplastics Inside Clouds May Be Changing Global Weather, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A powerful gamma ray burst was so powerful, it took a chunk out of the Earth's upper atmosphere last year.

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A Supernova Blew Out Part of Earth’s Atmosphere, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States.

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United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air

By Noor Al-Sibai

Soot kills thousands of people every year. But as the EPA prepares to tighten soot restrictions, corporations are more worried about the GDP.

Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A small pond in Hawaii has turned an alarmingly bright shade of pink, alarming local residents and environmentalists.

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Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink

By Victor Tangermann

New aerial footage shows a massive crack splitting a town in Iceland in half and sending ominous steam into the air.

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Huge Crack Opens Up in Iceland, Steam Pouring Forth

By Victor Tangermann

The mystery is settled: starfish don't have a head. They are a head — and their evolution may be even weird than once believed.

Oh God… Those Aren’t “Arms” on Starfish, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

The continent of Argoland, which virtually vanished in the geological record 150 million years ago, has finally been found.

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Scientists Rediscover Lost Continent That Broke Off From Australia

By Frank Landymore

A powerful solar flare could trigger what Peter Becker, professor of physics at George Mason University, is calling an "internet apocalypse."

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Professor Warns That the Sun Is Angry and It Could Knock Out the Internet

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers claim that in 2020, an astonishing 53 percent of all free-standing homes in Europe could have run entirely on solar.

Researchers Say Solar Is Getting So Good That People Could Start Quitting the Electric Grid

By Frank Landymore

A new UN report has found that despite climate promises, the world's top oil producers are on track to drill for more fossil fuels than ever.

As Climate Doom Looms, We’re Drilling For More Fossil Fuels Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

After getting some intense media grilling about whistleblower reports, the man who headed up the Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down.

Military UFO Head Resigns After Being Grilled About Whistleblower Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai

Globe owners, take heed: a new island has emerged from Japanese waters, the result of submarine volcanic activity off the coast of Iwo Jima.

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New Island Bursts Forth From Ocean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An orca pod has once again attacked and sank a boat off the Strait of Gibraltar, adding to the growing list of similar incidents.

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Orcas Strike Again, Sinking Another Yacht

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have now measured atmospheric mercury levels in the past, and their findings makes our current levels all the more concerning.

Humans Are Spiking the Level of Poisonous Mercury in the Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

Controversial new research led by renowned climate scientist James Hansen found that global warming is accelerating.

Global Warming Is Even Worse Than We Thought, Scientist Says

By Frank Landymore