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Earlier this month, a 360-foot blade of a wind turbine off the shore of Nantucket shattered. An oil spill is still far worse.
Wind

By Victor Tangermann

China's mysterious Shenlong spacecraft may be doing more than just testing out its spacefaring capabilities, experts warn. 
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

A proposed Congressional bill would ban the commercial farming of octopuses while also prohibiting the import of farmed octopus meat.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

A humpback whale breached the waters off New Hampshire and body slammed a small fishing boat into capsizing.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

Zookeepers now have a new issue when it comes to their gorilla charges: limiting their smartphone screen time. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the second day in a row, the Earth shattered its record for the hottest day ever recorded.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

After a blast at Yellowstone, don't worry: officials say this isn't a sign of an impending eruption of the area's supervolcano.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Rocks lying on the seafloor could be causing a chemical reaction that produces oxygen, upending beliefs on how oxygen first filled the Earth.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

A massive wind turbine blade shattered, leading to "large floating debris and fiberglass shards" threatening local beachgoers.
Wind

By Victor Tangermann

While heat waves batter Europe, a million people in Southern Russia went without power due to a nuclear false alarm.
Nuclear Fusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles has a fascinating new exhibit in the form of a mysteriously green dinosaur.
Fossil Fuels

By Victor Tangermann

China has built the OceanX, "the world's largest single-capacity floating wind turbine platform." It can withstand hurricanes and typhoons.
Wind

By Sharon Adarlo

Project 2025, written by allies of Donald Trump, wants to effectively dissolve NOAA in order to fully privatize weather forecasts.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found a new way to tell if a portrait of a human was AI-generated by using the same techniques astronomers use to analyze stars.
Physics

By Victor Tangermann

Fascinating footage shows members of one of the most isolated Indigenous tribes in the world leaving the rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A window on the 13th floor of a skyscraper in Boston suddenly shattered due to the heat as temperatures soared to 95 degrees.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

The National Museum of Ireland received two early Bronze age axeheads from an anonymous sender, and experts are begging them to come forward.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Researchers want to dump thousands of gallons of sodium hydroxide into the ocean in an effort to slow climate change.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

The synthetic "butter" not only tastes like the stuff, it's calorically dense and is made out of the very gas killing our planet, too.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

In an experiment that simulated random for millions of generations, researchers say they witnessed the emergence of digital "organisms."
Biology

By Frank Landymore

Tony Robbins invested $200 million into breakthrough clean energy tech. Per the Wall Street Journal, proof that it works remains elusive.
Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI certainly isn't the only sector to use tons of water, but it's wasting it in a way that's especially disruptive to fresh water supplies.
Environment

By Frank Landymore

At least 28 people died from the heat wave based on reports from west coast states, with the actual figure expected to be higher.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

An adventurous rower, who has taken it upon himself to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a small rowing boat, was followed by over 1,000 whales.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NYC's Third Avenue Bridge was got stuck turning as temperatures soared to 95 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Nothing spells dystopia quite like using the Whataburger app to track damage from a hurricane — but in Texas, they make do.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Flowers bloomed early in the Atacama Desert in Chile after early rains and warmer temperatures brought to life dormant seeds and bulbs.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

Climate change is supercharging Atlantic ocean temperatures, making Hurricane Beryl particularly fierce and deadly.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say they've used gravitational wave reserach statistics to solve an Antikythera mechanism mystery.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

In a controversial new study, scientists are claiming that trees in Los Angeles are contributing to the city's air pollution.
Pollution

By Noor Al-Sibai

An almost perfectly round, 100-foot sinkhole opened up in an Illinois park this week, a terrifying incident that was caught on camera.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

To fend off climate change, some propose removing CO2 from the ocean so that it can store even more of the greenhouse gas.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

In an effort to make them useless to poachers, researchers are implanting radioactive isotopes into the horns of rhinos in South Africa.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

As a growing body of evidence shows, the particles in all that air pollution have actually helped cool the planet.
Pollution

By Frank Landymore

This year's hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia has been deadly with more than 1,300 Muslims dying this month, due to extreme hot weather.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers are warning that geoengineering efforts to help cool temperatures in California could trigger heatwaves in Europe.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A group of scientists have created a chip that can fit into smartphone and "see" through barriers using electromagnetic waves.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have long observed animals having gay sex — but those observations have rarely made their way into academic papers.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese electronics corporation TDK says its new solid state batteries will replace the coin sized batteries found in wearable electronics.
Energy

By Frank Landymore

Energy prices in France turned negative following a surge in renewable output last week, causing a number of nuclear reactors to shut down.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new report from the International Energy Agency is bullish about the impact of renewables, which will contribute to a drop in oil demand.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

A potent carcinogen called ethylene oxide is polluting the air in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" at much higher levels than the EPA estimated.
Pollution

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers suggest we should hunt for an ultralight dark matter candidate in the Earth's ionosphere, a "long shot."
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax. Meanwhile, MAGA supporters are getting hospitalized by global warming-induced heat at rallies.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have come up with a new way to store energy inside a modified concrete, a potential solution to a growing energy storage problem.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A PhD student in India has proposed a "new model" of the universe that includes an "anti-universe" that flows backward in time.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A video making its rounds in China unmasks a hidden pipe feeding what is claimed to be the country's tallest, uninterrupted waterfall.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new study from Mayo Clinic shows that for folks with arrhythmia, sudden cardiac arrest and energy drinks often go hand-in-hand.
Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some scientific experts have been proposing refreezing the Arctic region via a series of drastic geoengineering projects.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

New data from NOAA and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide reached an all-time high in May.
Pollution

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In one California town, local officials have shut down the United States' first so-called "cloud-brightening" geoengineering experiment.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Beware the three horsemen of the ocean apocalypse, according to a new study: extreme heat, acidification, and deoxygenation.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Lab-grown diamonds are taking the jewelry industry by storm — and those invested in the natural-grown kind are none too pleased.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An expert warns that over ten thousand people could die as the result of a single heat wave, sending hundreds of thousands to the hospital.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

The supply of renewable energy is soaring across Europe and parts of the US, causing prices to go negative. Investors are becoming wary.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The architects behind the Burj Khalifa in Dubai are teaming up with a startup to turn future skyscrapers into massive, gravity-powered batteries.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A dinosaur hunter is set to rake in millions of dollars after his find of a 150-million-year-old stegosaurus goes to auction.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

An international team of botanists just discovered the largest genome ever sequenced — in an itty-bitty Pacific fern.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Global warming is thawing permafrost in Alaska and turning remote rivers from pristine glacier blue to rusty bright orange.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

The sulfur emissions had helped cool the planet before they were significantly curtailed in 2020, the study found.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

The same sunspot responsible for the epic geomagnetic storm earlier this month just came back into view and immediately let loose.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

In Iceland, a gigantic volcanic eruption has warranted terrifying videos alongside evacuations of nearby towns and tourist attractions.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Germany has so much energy coming from solar panels that it has outpaced consumer demand and pushed energy prices into a steep nose dive.
Solar Power

By Sharon Adarlo