Taking a Gander at Utah’s Goosenecks
The San Juan River has carved deep, improbably curvy meanders into the desert landscape.
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Cyprus: Island of Snakes, Cats, and Ophiolites
The third-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea exposes an ancient piece of the ocean floor and hosts a clowder of cats.
Read the story →Before the Dawn in America’s Heartland
With hardly a cloud in sight, astronauts had a sweeping view of nighttime lights in the U.S. Midwest.
Read the story →The Pacific’s Busy Storm Season
Super Typhoon In-fa developed an unusually large eye, and the remnants of Typhoon Champi transitioned into an extratropical storm that targeted Alaska.
Read the story →NASA reveals a haunting skull hidden in Antarctica’s ice
NASA satellites have captured an eerie, skull-shaped formation on a remote Antarctic island, but its haunting appearance conceals a troubling warning about melting glaciers. Unusually warm winter temperatures have exposed large areas of dark ice, potentially accelerating future melting and gradually transforming the skull's ghostly features.
Read at ScienceDaily ↗Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon
Amid the warm hues of fall foliage, Pine Creek Gorge forms a deep scar in the Allegheny Plateau.
Read the story →The asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Why did crocodiles survive?
Scientists may have solved a 66-million-year-old mystery: how crocodiles survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. A sweeping analysis of fossils and ancient climates suggests that their preference for warm environments placed them in tropical refuges that remained habitable even after the catastrophic impact.
Read at ScienceDaily ↗Vega Island Frozen in Fright
The sight of an icy skull-like visage on the Antarctic island could make one’s blood run cold.
Read the story →Scientists confirm global warming is accelerating faster than ever recorded
Earth is warming faster than ever recorded, with scientists detecting a major acceleration in global temperatures since around 2015. A new study reveals that the warming rate has surged to approximately 0.35°C per decade, nearly double the average pace observed from 1970 to 2015. After removing natural climate fluctuations, researchers confirmed the acceleration with more than 98% statistical confidence.
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