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The Nuclear Waste Dome in the Pacific is Slowly Falling Apart
From the air, Runit Island looks almost postcard-perfect. It sits in the Marshall Islands surrounded by bright blue water, white sand, and tropical vegetation. But hidden inside that serene landscape is one of the most unsettling leftovers of the nuclear age: a concrete dome filled with radioactive waste from U.S. atomic testing. For decades, the…
Australia Is Moving North Faster Than Any Other Continent
Seven centimeters. That is roughly the rate your fingernails grow in a year. It is also the speed at which an entire continent is drifting across the surface of the Earth. Australia is officially the fastest moving land mass on the planet, sliding north at about seven centimeters every single year. It sounds small, almost…