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- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large it now hosts dozens of species, and the plastic “island” is turning into a new and deeply uncomfortable ecosystem
- The EPA warns thousands of U.S. schools have high levels of radon, and the danger is that it is odorless, invisible, and seeps up from the ground
- Archaeologists working in 3 to 13 feet of water along Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul say they have mapped streets, public buildings, and a Muslim cemetery, and they believe a major early-1400s earthquake pushed a medieval Silk Road trading town under the lake
- An Australian Navy submarine detects unknown structures beneath Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, and the find suggests the seafloor there is more active than it looks
- The world’s largest floating city is back in action: 80,000 residents, a stadium, schools and even eight helipads
- Iberian lynx are dispersing seeds and reshaping ecosystems in Spain, and researchers find that a top predator can also act as a gardener
- A metal detector finds more than 1,000 gold coins from the 1st century B.C., and the stash surfaces as if the ground kept a debt with history
