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NASA Scientists Shocked As Colossal Bioluminescent Sea Entity Emerges, Casting Light Over Vast Distances And Igniting Global Speculation
Sustainability Times
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August 23, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL 🌊 NASA satellites captured a stunning turquoise glow, revealing a massive bioluminescent phytoplankton bloom off Australia’s coast. 🛰️ The bloom was first observed by NASA’s PACE spacecraft, highlighting the seasonal patterns of...
How tensions between Russia and the West are mounting in the Arctic
The Times
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may be the main issue on the table when President Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.But the choice of location — a territory bought from Russia in the 19th century and the United States’ only foothold in...
Sea levels are rising as predicted - with bigger risks ahead
Earth.com
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For centuries, humanity relied on coastal landmarks and tide gauges to understand sea levels. But satellites changed everything. Since the early 1990s, orbiting instruments have provided precise, global records of ocean surface height. These data...
5 national parks bigger than countries like Spain, Switzerland, or Germany
The Times of India
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August 20, 2025
Size: 972,000 sq km - Bigger than France, Spain, and Germany combined Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest in the world and covers nearly half the island. To put it in perspective, it’s about 45 times the size of Switzerland. Forget...
Last chance tourism: Raising awareness or hastening damage?
Hindustan Times
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August 19, 2025
Who wouldn’t want to experience one of the world’s most pristine yet rapidly vanishing places and share its story years from now? A woman takes a picture of the Rhone glacier amid climate change in Obergoms, Switzerland(Photo: REUTERS/Bernadett...
An eclipse expert’s guide to next year’s solar blackout
The Independent
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August 19, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
The Rundown: Make sure your Labubu has nine teeth
WBEZ - Illinois
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August 19, 2025
Good afternoon! This overcast Tuesday, I’m daydreaming about vacationing in Greenland. Here’s what else you need to know today. Sold by Chinese toy company Pop Mart, the plush, mischievous monster dolls are in high demand; they can often be...
A Decade of Global Water Cycle Monitoring: NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission
NASA
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August 18, 2025
Introduction The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, launched in 2015, has over 10 years of global L-band radiometry observations. The low frequency [1.4 GHz frequency or 21 cm (8 in) wavelength] measurements provide information on...
Fibre-optic cables reveal how icebergs and tsunamis drive glacier loss
Cosmos
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August 14, 2025
The calving front of Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat in South Greenland. Researchers deployed the fiber optic cable several hundred meters from the glacier’s mouth. Credit: Dominik Gräff/University of Washington As glaciers meet the sea and melt,...
Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder - a rare black moon is rising this weekend
The Independent
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August 19, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
All the News That’s Fit: Microscopic mercury foe, butter records and the longest-lived animal
The San Diego Union-Tribune - California
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August 19, 2025
For The Union-Tribune Mercury microbe Human activities like coal burning and gold mining can cause mercury pollution in the air, which eventually settles into water, where it is absorbed into the food chain and results in the risk of mercury...
Caltech Announces 3 New Innovative Projects
Pasadena Now - California
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Zhongwen Zhan swinging a sledgehammer at the Antarctic ice Credit: Zhongwen Zhan Three innovative new projects to explore Earth and the cosmos have been selected to move forward through the Brinson Exploration Hub at Caltech. The projects, each...
How volcanic eruptions cooled the planet 800 years ago
Earth.com
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Volcanic eruptions are known to blast heat and ash into the sky but, oddly, they can also cool the planet. Now, scientists have found fresh evidence of this effect hidden in Antarctic ice. A new analysis of polar ice cores detected signals from...
Man overboard on Princess cruise; Carnival ship hits rough seas
AOL
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The last couple of weeks have been rough for the cruise industry and its passengers. Last week, cruise tragedies struck both on land and at sea and more distress came upon multiple sailings in the last few days. First, a Norwegian Cruise Line...
New ‘forever chemicals’ found in killer whale blubber
Oceanographic Magazine
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August 18, 2025
In the same week that global discussions to develop a legally-binding multilateral Plastics Treaty to tackle the plastic pollution, microplastics, and their associated harmful chemicals crisis collapsed, scientists identified a class of PFAS in...
Deep heat zone may be lifting the Appalachian Mountains
Earth.com
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A massive pocket of unusually hot rock buried deep under the Appalachian Mountains might be a lingering echo of ancient tectonic shifts that split Greenland from North America 80 million years ago. This strange heat zone – known as the Northern...
Tulane study finds 1990s sea-level projections remarkably accurate
New Orleans City Business - Louisiana
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August 22, 2025
KEY TAKEAWAYS: 30-year satellite data confirms mid-1990s sea-level projections were accurate Global sea-level rise has averaged one-eighth inch per year, accelerating recently Early models underestimated melting ice sheets, highlighting future...
A Maine birder’s 657-species addiction
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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August 23, 2025
I started my birding life list when I was about 14 years old. It seemed innocent enough at the time. Little did I know where it would lead. A life list is a list of all species seen in one’s lifetime. Roger Tory Peterson’s groundbreaking Guide To...
Faroese Whole Genomes Provide Insight into Ancestry and Recent Selection
eLife
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The Faroe Islands, nestled in the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Norway, are home to the descendants of a North Atlantic founder population with a rich cultural heritage and a unique history shaped by both migration and periods of...
Commentary: Artificial intelligence means farewell to 'net-zero’ fantasy
Grand Forks Herald - North Dakota
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August 16, 2025
Artificial Intelligence is upon us, is here to stay, and is heading in one direction: more. More AI means more electric power generation — a lot more. “Green” or “renewable” energy is not going to cut it, no matter the fantasies of the...