Volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula – Svartsengi, Reykjanes, Iceland Gold in the nature photojournalism category
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Chris Jones, a beef farmer, is very proud of his beavers. “They are just extraordinary,” he says.Since releasing a couple into an enclosure on his Cornwall farm in 2017, he says
A school-age child with measles died in Texas this week, making it the first measles death in the U.S. in 10 years. This child was one of dozens of unvaccinated kids
NASA is ready to launch a space telescope to see the universe in a whole new way.The agency’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer,
Governments on Friday reached agreement on a strategy to raise an additional $200 billion each year to better protect the world’s flora and fauna by 2030. Read Full Story on UN
So far astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets—worlds that orbit stars other than our sun. If that number already feels ridiculously large, you’d better brace yourself: through extrapolation, there could be
Happy Eco News Understanding, Monitoring, and Protecting Polar Bear Families Reading Time: 4 minutes Understanding, monitoring, and protecting polar bear families After the 24-hour darkness of the polar night, the return
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.You know that feeling when you just can’t get a song out of your head—just a short part of it playing over
The world’s oceans experienced three-and-a-half times as many marine heatwave days last year and in 2023 compared with any other year on record, a study has found.The sustained spike in ocean