A Depressing New Type of Pollution Has Started Showing Up on Shoreline Rocks
You might think that plastic pollution on land and sea is old news by now, but it’s taken on a new form we’ve only just noticed: Researchers have identified a…
Scientists Discover a Vast Reservoir of Freshwater Hidden Beneath The Ocean
Underneath the salty waters of the North Atlantic ocean, geologists have discovered a giant aquifer of freshwater, hidden from view just off the US coast. While the vast size of…
Haunting Video Is The First Footage Ever Recorded of a Giant Squid in US Waters
In the pitch black waters 759 meters (2500 feet) below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a thin, undulating arm emerges from the gloom. Suddenly, it splits, and what…
Chilling NASA Model Shows Greenland’s Ice Sheet Will Disappear Over Next 1,000 Years
Great news! Humankind’s greatest-ever engineering project is nearing completion. Soon we will have warmed the Earth enough to get rid of all those pesky ice sheets and other frozen areas.…
A Major Indian City Has Nearly Run Out of Water, And No One Is Talking About It
This time last year the roughly half-a-million people who live in Cape Town were in a panic. Their city was three months away from becoming the first major metropolis to…
Declassified Spy Photos Reveal The True Scale of Melting of The Himalayan Glaciers
Just under half a century ago a system of satellites codenamed Hexagon was circling the globe and snapping high-resolution shots of the changing landscape… not to mention a Russian airfield…
Boaty McBoatface’s First Mission Results Just Got Published, And It’s Serious Science
Boaty McBoatface is no longer just an internet sensation – it’s also a valuable contributor to climate change research. In 2016, the Natural Environment Research Council asked internet users to…