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Researchers find that the more Antarctic ice melts, the more warm water reaches the underside of ice shelves, and that feedback loop can accelerate a melt that’s hard to stop
The SWOT satellite captures the first detailed high-resolution view of a massive Pacific tsunami, and the imagery helps explain how an ocean-crossing wave actually travels
A new Dumbo octopus is discovered in the deep Pacific, and Grimpoteuthis feitiana proves every deep-sea expedition still finds names that didn’t exist yesterday
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
A study warns about nitrate and uranium interacting in U.S. drinking water, and the chemistry turns one contamination problem into a harder one to detect
Germany covers an artificial lake with solar panels without harming the ecosystem, and the experiment hints at a future where water becomes a rooftop for power
A volunteer finds a tiny 1,600-year-old gold bead in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David, and that speck of metal revives a daily-life moment from another era
An Australian spider spins webbing with properties never seen in any material, and the finding puts biology ahead of engineering again
Brazil could jump its oil reserves from 17 billion to 23.5 billion barrels with $30 billion a year in investment, and exploration along the Equatorial Margin is being pitched out to 2042
In Britain’s Bronze Age 3,000 years ago, communities held massive meat feasts, and the gatherings may have functioned like a social network that kept groups together
Snipers and GPS-tagged goats are being used to save Galápagos tortoises, and the extreme strategy shows how far conservation goes when a species needs protection by force









