Earth & Environment
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
Earth Science and Weather
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Earth & Environment
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
Earth & Environment
Mount Everest is the highest point above sea level, but because the Earth bulges at the equator, the summit of a volcano in Ecuador sits…
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2017, Australia officially shifted its national coordinates 1.8 meters northeast
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 21, 2026
Earth & Environment
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
Earth & Environment
Earth's inner core is not pure iron — a 2025 Oxford study found it could only have begun to freeze if roughly 3.8 percent of it is carbon…
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
The world's tallest waterfall is not Angel Falls
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1970, Soviet scientists began drilling into the Kola Peninsula and eventually reached 12,262 metres
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
Blue zones promised the secret to living past 100. Its famous debunking is being disputed too
Jul 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
The oldest water on Earth has been isolated for 2 billion years beneath a Canadian mine
By Kiran Journals · Jul 16, 2026
Earth & Environment
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
Earth & Environment
Roughly five and a half million years ago the Mediterranean dried up almost entirely, and when the Atlantic finally broke back through at…
Jul 12, 2026
Earth & Environment
Nearly three kilometres beneath a Canadian mine, geologists found water that may have been isolated in the rock for roughly two billion…
Jul 12, 2026
Earth & Environment
Iceland's Hallgrímskirkja church took 41 years to build and was designed to echo the basalt lava columns that cool into hexagonal pillars…
Jul 11, 2026