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A view captured from a plane passing over the summit crater of Alaska's Mount Spurr in early February 2025.
A collage shows penguins, seals, a satellite image and a a drone photo of the A23a iceberg.
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Scientists find evidence that entirety of Earth was once covered in ice
An artist's conception of "Snowball Earth," when the planet was either completely or largely covered in ice hundreds of millions of years ago.


Scientists discover mysterious deep sea creature. It hunts with a hood.
It took 150 sightings over 20 years and genetic testing to identify this new deep sea species.

How to find online updates on California's Mountain Fire
Firefighters battle the Mountain Fire in Moorpark, Calif.




Amazon takes enormous step to reduce packaging waste
Amazon boxes in a warehouse.

Land, air, and space footage captures the surging Hurricane Milton
Satellite footage captures Hurricane Milton as is brews near Florida's West Coast


Space footage shows Hurricane Milton explode into monster storm
Hurricane Milton observed on Oct. 7 by NOAA's GOES-19 weather satellite.

‘Living walls’ are transforming London construction sites
A split-screen shows two photographs of a construction hoarding – before and after the vertical meadow grew on it. Caption reads: "Vertical meadows"

Trump won't stop making a deceptive bird claim. Experts debunk it.
A crested caracara near a wind turbine in South Texas.

This shark lives for centuries. Scientists discover how it resists aging.
A Greenland shark swimming in ocean.

How Paris cleaned up the Seine for the Olympics
Atheletes jump in the river Seine, with Pont Neuf and the Eiffel Tower in the background. Caption reads "Olympic effort"


Cities might hold the key to sustainable woodworking
A split screen image shows a hand polishing a newly finished wooden plank (left) and a phone scanning the tag of a log to verify its origin (right)


Cicadas love to land on people. Experts explain why.
The head of a cicada that emerged in 2021 as part of Brood X.

Sustainable laptops to make every day Earth Day
woman walks through door into natural landscape collage



24 good things already happening in 2024
2024 written on a road heading towards the sun.

These animals went extinct in 2023
The large Kauaʻi thrush was removed from the endangered species list in 2023.

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