A Comet May Have Been To Blame For The Dino-Killing Impact, Not An Asteroid
Objects hitting Earth could rise in the asteroid belt between Mars or Jupiter or at the outer edge of the solar system. So the dormant…
Geology
There’s Plenty Of Water Ice Buried On Mars According To New Map
Planetary scientists have released a new map of Mars, marking the possible location of significant ice deposits beneath its surface. Today the Red Planet is…
How a Single Species Devastated the World’s Largest Freshwater Ecosystem
The Great Lakes of North America is by far the largest connected freshwater system in the world. Their biology has changed drastically with the establishment…
Climate Change: What Would 4°C Of Global Warming Feel Like?
Another year, a climate record was broken. Globally, 2020 recorded as the warmest year of all time, with 2016 being the coldest condition in the…
Mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident That Killed Entire Team of Hikers May Have Just Been Solved
On January 27 of 1959, a group of hikers from the Ural Polytechnic Institute of Russia set out on an expedition to the North Ural…
Massive Lungfish Genome Sheds Light on How Fish “Conquered” Land
At one point, a fish made enough decisions and dragged itself to the ground to see what was happening at the top. The move dates…
A Legacy of the Crusades Is Saving an Israeli City from Being Swallowed Up By Desert
The coastal city of Ashkelon was a frequent battlefield during the Crusades (between the 11th and 15th centuries), with Muslims and Christians changing hands several…
UN Refugee Report Includes Climate Change as Reason for Displacement, For the First Time
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) annual Global Trends and Global Report, more than 1% of humanity was forced to flee…
The Stunning Noctilucent Cloud Phenomenon Lights up Summer Night Sky
Once rare, but now becoming increasingly common, nocturnal, or “night waking”, the clouds are located in the upper part of the Earth’s atmosphere, ten kilometers…
The UN report said, the Planet Is Crashing towards Its Climate Change Limits
According to new data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), our chances of avoiding a full-blown climate crisis are looking slimmer. Annual global temperatures could…
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