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For the first time, a location beyond Earth has been listed as vulnerable by the World Monuments Fund, an international ...

The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the ...

The story of the Disney Park obsessives who set out to ride every Disney World ride in a day and started a craze in the ...

While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s ...

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for ...

Ever wanted to see how history connects all around the world? This interactive history map makes it easier than ever.

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using ...

Scientists say this likely puts Earth at greater risk of more extreme heat waves, hurricanes and significant loss of ...

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily ...