Off the coast of Sicily this month, a fisherman named Giacomo De Mola noticed something odd on his sonar and dove in anyway
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Climate, energy, ecology, and the systems that keep the planet running.
In 1815, a volcano erupted with such violence that temperatures fell across the planet, crops failed thousands of miles away, and the…
By Ainura Kalau · Aug 12, 2026
During the 2017 eclipse, giraffes stampeded, Galápagos tortoises started mating, gibbons sang unfamiliar songs, and gorillas quietly got…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 11, 2026
When fourteen Canadian wolves were released into Yellowstone in 1995, they were credited with bringing back trees, beavers and even…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
About 90 million years ago, a temperate rainforest grew just 900 kilometres from the South Pole
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Suzanne Simard's 1997 experiment really did find carbon moving between tree species through shared fungal threads, but the much more famous…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
In 1977, a Saudi prince paid to tow a chunk of Alaskan iceberg to a conference in landlocked Iowa, serving guests 4,000-year-old ice in…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Solar added a record 600 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2025 and supplied more than 8 percent of the global total, but the next…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Earth has five named oceans, but they form one connected system covering 71 percent of the planet, moving heat, carbon, and nutrients…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 9, 2026
Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level, but a volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo beats it by more than 2,000 metres…
Aug 9, 2026
The fluffy white cumulus cloud drifting over your house right now weighs roughly 500 tonnes, the equivalent of 100 elephants, yet it floats…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 9, 2026
While Europe and America baked through record heat this summer, the other end of the planet quietly dropped to minus 119 Fahrenheit
By Brendan Brown · Aug 8, 2026