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Geyser Eruption At Yellowstone Unleashes ‘Clearly Historic’ Collection Of Human Garbage
Geyser eruptions at Yellowstone National Park are moments of rarefied beauty; spectacular reminders that we live on a geologically-dynamic planet. A recent eruption was also a reminder that we’ve turned said planet into a dumpster.
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Mass Die-Off Of Orcas Feared Due To Chemicals Banned In The ’70s
A group of industrial chemicals humans started banning decades ago could cause many of the world’s orca whale populations to collapse over the next century, an alarming new study has found.
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Watch A Russian Ice Cap Experience An ‘Unprecedented’ Melt Down
It’s no secret that ice around the world is receding as global temperatures rise. Even so, the sudden destabilisation of a remote ice cap in the Russian High Arctic has scientists throwing around words like “extraordinary” and “unprecedented.”
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New Super-High-Resolution Map Shows Antarctica In Unprecedented Detail
There have been a lot of good maps of Earth’s polar regions of late, but a new terrain map of Antarctica is still special. It isn’t just the highest resolution ever produced for the frozen continent, but the highest resolution for any continent, period.