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The Three Reasons Earth Is Warming So Quickly
Europe has endured blistering summers. Wildfires have spread across continents. Oceans have recorded temperatures that scientists once thought would take decades to reach. Each new record seems to replace the last within months, leaving many wondering whether the climate crisis has entered a new and more dangerous phase. Researchers say the answer may be yes.…
Europe Faces Dangerous Heat as El Niño Threat Grows
Europe has spent weeks under relentless heat that has shattered temperature records, strained hospitals, fueled deadly wildfires, and pushed millions of people into conditions that health officials describe as life threatening. What once would have been considered an extraordinary weather event is becoming increasingly familiar. Scientists are now watching another development with growing concern. Forecasts…
Scientists Build Underwater Habitat Where Humans Can Live Beneath the Ocean
For generations, the ocean has remained one of Earth’s greatest frontiers. It covers more than 70 percent of the planet, regulates the climate, supports countless species, and produces much of the oxygen humans breathe. Yet despite its importance, scientists have explored only a fraction of its vast depths. A newly installed underwater habitat in the…
Why Americas Water Crisis Is Closer Than Many People Think
For most Americans, turning on the kitchen tap is an act so ordinary it barely registers. Water arrives instantly, clean and reliable, with little thought given to where it comes from or how long it will last. That assumption has held true for generations, even in places that regularly battle drought. But along the Texas…
New York Just Became the First State to Halt Data Center Construction
Behind every AI search, cloud service and digital tool is a physical building filled with servers that consume enormous amounts of electricity and water. As companies race to build more of these facilities, New York has become the first state to impose a statewide pause on new hyperscale data centers. The move is not a…
Scientists Just Watched the Seafloor Split Apart and Create New Ocean Crust
Most of Earth’s surface was created in a place no human can easily reach: the dark, crushing depths of the ocean. Scientists have long known that tectonic plates pull apart there, allowing magma to rise and harden into new crust. Yet the crucial moment had remained largely hidden, reconstructed only from the evidence left behind.…
Trump Shrinks Two Utah National Monuments Sacred to Tribes by About 90% Each
With a signature on Monday, President Donald Trump erased protections from an expanse of southern Utah nearly the size of Connecticut. Standing at a White House signing event, flanked by Utah’s Republican governor, Trump approved proclamations shrinking two of the country’s best-known national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, by roughly 90% each. Together the…
NASA Wants Volunteers to Live Like Astronauts for an Entire Year
The idea of leaving Earth for Mars has fascinated people for generations. Movies have turned it into an epic adventure, while scientists have spent decades trying to solve the countless problems that stand between humanity and another planet. Now NASA is inviting ordinary people to experience a small part of that journey without ever leaving…
The Forgotten Employee Who Slipped Through the System for Years
Some workplace stories are so unusual they sound like scenes from a comedy. Yet one of Spain’s strangest public sector scandals was entirely real, involving an engineer who disappeared from his job for years while continuing to receive his full salary. The extraordinary case only came to light because officials wanted to reward him for…
Lake Powell Nears Critically Low Levels and ‘Dead Power Pool,’ Experts Warn
A reservoir can still look enormous while coming dangerously close to losing one of its most important functions. Lake Powell now sits only about 34 feet above the point where Glen Canyon Dam can no longer generate hydropower, following a record-low snowpack and decades of strain across the Colorado River Basin. Falling water levels threaten…