Greece put Mount Olympus forward for UNESCO World Heritage status in 2014. Twelve years later, at the mythological home of Zeus and the…
Aug 6, 2026
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Climate, energy, ecology, and the systems that keep the planet running.
Scientists tracked coral on Japanese breakwaters for twenty nine years, and after a major bleaching event the artificial structures…
Aug 4, 2026
In 1987, a barge loaded with three thousand tons of New York garbage set out for a landfill and couldn't find anywhere to dump it
By Daniel Moran · Aug 3, 2026
The Pacific is the largest ocean on Earth, bigger than all the continents combined, and it is also the one that is slowly closing, consumed…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 1, 2026
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island of trash
Jul 31, 2026
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By Mal James · Jul 23, 2026
To guard its nuclear waste for 100,000 years, Finland is trusting copper, clay and ancient stone
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026
While the rest of the world braces for longer wildfire seasons, Africa's fires have been quietly retreating for 20 years
Jul 21, 2026
A reef off Benin was written off as dead sixty years ago
Jul 21, 2026
In 2017, Australia officially shifted its national coordinates 1.8 meters northeast
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 21, 2026
A University of California, Riverside study published in Nature Communications found that a weakening Atlantic Ocean current thousands of…
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026
The UN’s new blue economy framework is not really about oceans, it is an attempt to force fisheries, offshore wind, tourism, and coastal…
Jul 20, 2026