New data reveal that Doomsday Glacier is perilously close to collapse than experts believed. What’s more concerning is that there’s nothing we can do anymore. The glacier had episodes of fast retreat during the previous several centuries, which might be ...
Choosing climate-friendly foods is simpler than you would imagine, especially if you are concerned about the environment, climate change, and sustainability. But where to start? Researchers developed an algorithm to calculate the environmental impact of 57,000 food items using publicly ...
Scientists warn that we’re not ready for the next supervolcano eruption, and that’s quite shocking. Before we start panicking, which shouldn’t be the case, Earth already has a lot of threats, some of which we have just recently encountered. That ...
NASA discovered previously unknown Antarctic ice loss that’s concerning. The loss from ice shelves is now estimated to be twice as much as it was once, and new research, including the first map of iceberg calving, shows how the continent ...
A new study delivers a ‘warning to humanity,’ urging swift action to preserve the planet’s 60,000 tree species. The trees’ future seems bleak. Significant biodiversity losses would result from the widespread extinction of tree species. About 75 % of bird ...
A new ‘Stonehenge’ arises, and it’s actually one of Europe’s largest Neolithic standing stones. The stone was discovered by archaeologists in southwest Spain, close to Huelva, at a future avocado farm. Archaeologists have begun their mission immediately, trying to solve ...
According to new data, the pan-Arctic (Greenland, parts of Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, and Alaska) has seen a decline in lake size during the last two decades and is completely drying. The results provide data on the causes of the mass ...
The jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can live forever (at least in principle), according to research conducted by a team at the Universidad de Oviedo in Spain. In a recent study, the researchers discussed sequencing the genomes of two closely related species ...
Scientists have discovered that a significant sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now unavoidable, even if the fossil fuel burning causing the climate catastrophe were to stop tomorrow somehow. As concerning as that could be, ...
If you think dinosaurs had it worst, what may have happened with Earth after that, it’s even more terrible. A second asteroid possibly striking Earth at the same time as the one thought to have wiped out almost all dinosaurs ...