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New mud-slinging thermal feature at Yellowstone is spewing scalding hot muck
By Sascha Pare published
The unrest may be due to slight changes in pressure or in the amount of water seeping into the underground reservoir system.
NYC's air quality ranked worst of any major city on Wednesday. With climate change, will it happen again?
By Rebecca Sohn published
New York City's normally good air quality rating recently plummeted to the worst of any major city in the world, as wildfire smoke drifted over the city from Canada.
Scientists extract a kilometer of rock from Earth's mantle in record-breaking mission
By Ben Turner published
A record-breaking drilling attempt, which dug more than a kilometer into an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean, has given scientists a treasure trove of rocks to study for clues to Earth's inner workings.
How many oceans are there?
By Kiley Price published
One, four or five? Not all experts agree on the number of oceans on our planet.
Primordial steroids solve long-standing mystery about how the 1st complex life-forms evolved
By Stephanie Pappas published
Compounds from 1.6 billion years ago reveal a microbial transition that set the stage for much of today's life on Earth.
Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld' megaslump is revealing 650,000 year-old secrets from its permafrost
By Stephanie Pappas published
The permafrost inside the Batagay crater is the second-oldest ever found on Earth and scientists are using it to reconstruct the planet's ancient climate.
World's largest iceberg is no more after being ripped apart in 'iceberg graveyard'
By Harry Baker published
Satellite images show fragments from the enormous iceberg A-76A dispersing near South Georgia island, where the previous world's largest iceberg also met its doom in 2020.
Fungi seem to 'sweat' to stay cool and scientists don't know why
By Ethan Freedman published
This discovery reveals a mostly unstudied but apparently universal aspect of fungal life.
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