Every second, the Sun converts about 600 million tonnes of hydrogen into helium and loses roughly 4 million tonnes of that mass outright as…
Jul 20, 2026
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Climate, energy, ecology, and the systems that keep the planet running.
The world's tallest waterfall is not Angel Falls
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026
In 1970, Soviet scientists began drilling into the Kola Peninsula and eventually reached 12,262 metres
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 19, 2026
Sunlight reaches only the top 200 metres of the sea before the water swallows it, which means the overwhelming majority of the living space…
By Mal James · Jul 18, 2026
For 37 years researchers heated a patch of forest floor to see what climate change would do to the soil
Jul 18, 2026
The Mariana snailfish lives 8,000 metres down in water that would crush a submarine, and its skeleton is made mostly of cartilage flooded…
Jul 17, 2026
Blue zones promised the secret to living past 100. Its famous debunking is being disputed too
Jul 17, 2026
The oldest water on Earth has been isolated for 2 billion years beneath a Canadian mine
By Kiran Journals · Jul 16, 2026
Beneath the Sahara sits an ocean's worth of ancient groundwater that fell as rain during a green and forested age tens of thousands of…
Jul 16, 2026
For decades the heavy rocks crossing Death Valley were never seen moving, until cameras caught them gliding across the lakebed on thin…
Jul 16, 2026
The Aztecs built an agricultural system capable of producing repeated harvests without synthetic fertilizer, feeding a city of hundreds of…
Jul 15, 2026
A cotton T-shirt has an estimated water footprint of about 2,700 litres, including rainwater, irrigation water and pollution-dilution water
Jul 15, 2026