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The Blue Visby Solution proposes that cargo ships stop arriving way ahead of schedule and reduce their top speeds at sea to save fuel.
Renewable Energy

By Frank Landymore

A New Zealand man did a belly flop into the ocean and tried to "body slam" an adult male orca swimming next to a boat, earning him a fine.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

Ongoing Mexican heatwaves have killed at least 83 howler monkeys in Tabasco, where the primates were already threatened by habitat loss.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Thwaites or "doomsday" glacier is in even more danger than once believed, says a new study, because warm water reaching its underbelly.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers has discovered two underground structures located below a cemetery on the west side of the Great Pyramid.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Palantir's recent AI and defense expo sounds like it was an Orwellian nightmare fever dream to end all other military-industrial conferences.
Military

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An environmental group has slapped Tesla with a lawsuit this week for spewing pollution and violating the Clean Air Act.
Pollution

By Sharon Adarlo

The research explores how the reintroduction of bison into an ecosystem helped boost the overall amount of carbon sucked up by plants.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

A powerful Australian mining magnate has been trying to get an unflattering portrait of her removed from a museum.
Science & Energy

By Jon Christian

The Iberian orcas are back at it again, this time straight-up sinking a yacht near the Strait of Gibraltar.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists trying to find out why fish are spinning and dying in Florida may have discovered the culprit: poisonous algae.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

The climate experiment explored a technique called marine cloud brightening, in which aerosols are used to help clouds reflect more sunlight.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Tractors and other farm equipment broke down in the middle of planting season due to an extreme solar storm over the weekend.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A cruise ship came to port on Saturday with a surprising and stinky stowaway: a dead, rotting whale was found on its bow.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

A new carbon capture facility that claims to be the biggest in the world, began sucking the carbon from the air in Iceland.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A massive solar storm is blasting the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles, resulting in auroras that will be visible across the US.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Blobs left behind from a collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object may have led to plate tectonics and eventually earthquakes.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has discovered the deepest blue hole or underwater cave on Earth, so deep that we have yet to reach its bottom.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA spacecraft with sails being propelled solely by the rays of the Sun just made contact with operators back on Earth.
Solar Power

By Sharon Adarlo

In one Thai town, monkeys have become a fiery political issue — and the monkeys themselves are fighting back with a vengeance. 
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A particularly head-strong alligator had a hell of a time climbing a fence, as seen in a video making its rounds on Reddit.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in the United Kingdom discovered a porous material that has the potential capacity to store large quantities of greenhouse gases.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

A scientist is warning against regulatory attempts to ban geoengineering, which seeks to alter the weather as climate change makes it worse.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A bottlenose dolphin ended up dead and riddled with bullets on a beach in Louisiana, prompting a $20,000 bounty for the shooter.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

Athens' blue skies and famous landmarks like the Acropolis were bathed in an ominous red, yellow and orange glow, all due to a dust storm.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

A dentist was in for a huge shock when he looked down at his parents' new tile floor and saw what appeared to be the fossil of a human jaw.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's the "duck curve" problem. Solar power is providing huge amounts of energy during the day, creating a headache for grid operators.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

NASA's administrator is once again making outrageous claims about China's space capabilities, fueling the rivalry between the two.
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

The lava tube, Umm Jirsan, contained human and animal remains, as well as stone tools dating back to at least 7,000 years ago.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet in our Solar System — and new research suggests that it's out there. 
Solar Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists say that our increase use of plastic will dump untold tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere.
Pollution

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study discovered that nearly half of China's major cities are caving into the Earth, adding to a growing global issue of subsidence.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dark matter may in fact be made up of light-barrier breaking particles called tachyons, the researchers posit.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

An elderly elephant named Viola was found ambling through Butte, Montana on Tuesday after escaping a traveling circus.
Science & Energy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A report about a craft that appeared to defy both aerial and aquatic physics is, apparently, making a splash among the ex-military set.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute claims to have had a "conversation" with a humpback whale in Alaska.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Last month's deadly bridge collision in Baltimore has, apparently, gotten the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate Change Now Linked To Rise In Strokes
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Northrop Grumman has released a photo of a sleek underground drone called Manta Ray that closely resembles its oceanic namesake.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

United Nations' head climate expert says the human race has got two years tops to tamp down the worse effects from global warming.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

The use of aerosols to make clouds reflect more sunlight could be significantly more effective than once believed.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Global surface temperatures have soared once again, making March the tenth consecutive hottest month on record.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have allowed a small piece of "gravity-free" graphite to levitate almost perfectly still above a grid of magnets.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The programmable so-called "metafluid" is made of rubber-like spheres that allow it to radically alter its properties.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

The solar eclipse triggered a number of strange behaviors among animals, who were seemingly confused by the Sun setting far earlier.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA footage from the International Space Station shows a massive, looming cloud of darkness engulfing huge swathes of the United States.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

There are plenty of livestreams on the internet where you can watch the total solar eclipse unfold today. Here are the links.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

If you're looking for someone to blame the worsening degradation of the climate upon, look no further than these 57 companies.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

When a small earthquake struck, a patient named Justin Allen was lying down on an operating table getting a vasectomy.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

For the first time in centuries, two separate regional "broods" of cicadas are set to arise and invade parts of the United States.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are experimenting with a device built atop a decommissioned aircraft carrier that would dim the Sun by salting the clouds.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A small earthquake has hit the East Coast, striking a highly populated area in central New Jersey, less than 60 miles from New York City.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A massive ball suspended inside Taiwan's iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper protected the structure during the 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

People who want to see the total solar eclipse on April 8 may be blocked by cloudy skies if weather forecasts for America are accurate.
Science & Energy

By Sharon Adarlo

South Korean researchers have maintained plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds inside a tokamak fusion reactor.
Energy

By Victor Tangermann

If you want to climb Mount Everest, you gotta take your shit back with you and you can no longer leave it on the mountain.
Pollution

By Sharon Adarlo

Climate change is causing so much polar ice melt that it's slowing down Earth's rotation and it will alter how we measure time in the future.
Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

British archaeologists have found microplastics amidst historic sediment excavated in York that date as early as the 1st and 2nd centuries.
Pollution

By Sharon Adarlo

A pod of sperm whales used "defensive defecation" to successfully deter a vicious swarm of orcas off the coast of Western Australia.
Science & Energy

By Frank Landymore

Two beluga whales have died at Niagara Falls tourist attraction Marineland this month, raising the total number of whale deaths to 17.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

After his tragic death, veterinarians have found underlying illnesses in the body of New York City's beloved owl, Flaco.
Science & Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trees are quite literally "coughing" as they're struggling to keep up with the sheer amount of heat-trapped carbon dioxide in the air.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

As the space race heats up, the US is growing increasingly concerned about China, its chief adversary, using the Moon to launch attacks.
Military

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia has accused the US of using commercial satellite operators for its intelligence efforts — and is threatening to take military action.
Military

By Victor Tangermann