In the 1980s the US Navy trained belugas to dive past a thousand feet through freezing water and find test torpedoes with no tracking…
Aug 20, 2026
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Climate, energy, ecology, and the systems that keep the planet running.
For roughly 60 million years, rising and falling seas appear to have helped regulate Earth’s climate through an overlooked feedback
Aug 20, 2026
In Venezuela, a lake roughly the size of Connecticut experiences thunderstorms on nearly 300 nights a year, with lightning sometimes…
Aug 19, 2026
In 2025, scientists drilling beneath the Atlantic off New England pumped up about 50,000 litres of remarkably fresh groundwater
Aug 19, 2026
The Great Simplification predicts globalization receding into local production, and world trade did fall from 62.1 percent of global output…
Aug 19, 2026
The advantages of slow travel are not mainly about virtue
Aug 18, 2026
If West Antarctica's ice sheet collapsed, the U.S. East Coast would gain more than the coast nearest the ice
Aug 18, 2026
An avocado takes about 70 litres of applied fresh water to grow on average, but in Chile's dry Valparaíso region the figure has been…
Aug 18, 2026
The man who drew the first geological map of an entire country spent twenty-eight years surveying it, sold his fossil collection to the…
Aug 17, 2026
The oldest wooden structure ever found is two logs joined by a deliberately cut notch at Kalambo Falls in Zambia, dated to at least 476,000…
Aug 17, 2026
A rocky outcrop on the shore of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec contains the oldest known intact rocks on Earth, dated to at least 4.16…
Aug 17, 2026
Earth’s largest waterfall has no visible spray and no tourist overlook
Aug 17, 2026