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The Largest U.S. Groundwater Supply Is Running Out Beneath the Great Plains
Most of us never think about where our water comes from, let alone the water that grew the wheat in our morning toast or fattened the cattle behind the beef at the grocery store. For tens of millions of Americans, much of that answer lies hidden beneath the Great Plains, in an underground reservoir so…
Wildflower Strips Attract Pest-Eating Insects and Cut the Need for Pesticides
Picture a working farm field cut through with bright ribbons of wildflowers, oxeye daisies and red clover swaying among the crops. It looks like decoration, a pleasant flourish at the margins of serious agriculture. It is, in fact, something closer to a hidden defense system. Those strips of flowers are quietly recruiting an army, and…
Pennsylvania Farmer, 86, Turns Down $15 Million to Save His Land From a Data Center
Most people would not hesitate. When developers arrived with an offer worth more than $15 million for his farmland, Mervin Raudabaugh had every reason to take the money, sign the papers, and spend his later years in comfort. At 86, with more than six decades of hard farming behind him, no one would have blamed…
Conservation Groups Sue to Stop SpaceX From Taking 715 Acres of Texas Refuge
One of the largest land exchanges in the history of the national wildlife refuge system outside Alaska is now moving forward in South Texas, and it has set off a legal fight over who America’s protected public lands are meant to serve. At the center sits a decision by a federal agency to hand hundreds…
A Diver Coaxes A Tiny Octopus To Swap A Plastic Cup For A Shell In Pixar-Worthy Video
Twenty meters beneath the surface off the coast of Lembeh, Indonesia, a tiny octopus clung to a clear plastic cup, treating it as the one thing standing between itself and the dangers of the open seabed. A group of divers had gathered around the little creature, and they were not in a hurry to leave.…
NASA Releases Disturbing New Images As ‘Super El Niño’ Begins Forming Across Pacific
NASA scientists are closely monitoring a massive body of warm water spreading across the Pacific Ocean after newly released satellite images revealed conditions that could trigger a powerful El Niño event later this year. The enormous swell of higher and warmer water has already reached the coast of South America, and experts say the phenomenon…
If You Think It’s Hot Now, Brace for the Super El Niño Heading Our Way
Across the UK, people spent recent days crowding beaches and parks under a sky that felt more like high summer than late spring. For most, the heat was a pleasant surprise. For the scientists tracking ocean temperatures thousands of miles away in the tropical Pacific, it carried a different meaning entirely. What is forming out…
2026 Super El Niño Could Be the Strongest in 150 Years. Here Is What That Means for the World
Beneath the surface of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, something is building. A vast reservoir of warm water has been pushed eastward by an extraordinary series of wind events, and meteorologists around the world have spent recent weeks watching their forecast models converge on a conclusion that, until very recently, seemed almost too dramatic to take…
Alaska Villages Destroyed By Typhoon Say FEMA Wants Them Rebuilt Where Homes Were Swept Away
The floodwaters ripped homes straight off their foundations and carried some of them downriver with people still trapped inside. In western Alaska, entire Indigenous villages along the Bering Sea were left shattered after the remnants of Typhoon Halong slammed into the coast last October, leaving behind toxic floodwater, destroyed homes, and families scattered hundreds of…
Tourist Arrested After Throwing Rock at Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal
A man accused of throwing a large rock at the head of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal in Maui has now been arrested by federal agents after the incident sparked outrage across Hawaii and far beyond. The case exploded online after video footage showed the tourist taking aim at a monk seal known locally as…