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Scientists discovered a hidden underground forest 2,000 feet deep in China, and it’s teeming with rare species never seen before
1+ week, 3+ day ago (773+ words) At the bottom of a vertical shaft in the karst mountains of Chongqing, a mature subtropical forest grows in permanent half-light, roughly 2,000 feet below the plateau. The… The clouded leopard has been recorded down there, which means wildlife is still…...
How we talk to kids about nature can change how much they care
3+ week, 1+ day ago (862+ words) country’s first Ramsar-listed site. It sits inside a national park, but development keeps creeping in along...
California’s famous alien landscape seen from space
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (654+ words) California’s Vasquez Rocks have stood in for alien worlds for decades. A NASA satellite image reveals the famous landscape from space. Southern California is home to a landscape so unusual that Hollywood has spent decades pretending it belongs on other…...
A volcano that erupted near Mayotte in 2018 brought something extraordinary to the surface: a material from Earth’s birth 4.4 billion years ago
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1112+ words) A young underwater volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to the seafloor. And it’s an ancient one. Lava from Fani… Lava from Fani Maoré contains signs of mantle material formed within the…...
324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (956+ words) A 324-million-year-old fossil suggests early insects lived between water and land as their bodies gradually changed over time. Life on Earth changed greatly when animals began moving from water onto land. It happened in stages, and some early animals, including…...
Ancient armored fish survived a massive impact before Earth’s largest mass extinction
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1023+ words) A remarkably complete armored fish fossil from Brazil survived near a massive asteroid crater, revealing an unexpected link to ancient Europe. Near the end of the Permian, an asteroid hit central Brazil and folded the rock layers around the crater…...
Ancient iron reveals how mountains and plants reshaped Earth
1+ week, 2+ day ago (703+ words) Ancient iron deposits reveal how mountain building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's iron cycle over the past 1.2 billion years. For decades, scientists have relied on ancient iron deposits to trace how Earth’s oceans and atmosphere first filled…...
Ancient wildfires may have inspired one of humanity’s biggest inventions
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (880+ words) Ancient wildfires may have inspired pottery by showing early farmers how fire could transform ordinary clay into a hard, durable material. Long before anyone deliberately shaped a bowl, a stretch of ancient wildfires may have quietly handed early farmers the…...
Scientists determine the Great Lakes are nonrenewable
3+ week, 5+ day ago (952+ words) The Great Lakes hold about 21 percent of the planet's surface fresh water, yet less than one percent of that volume renews each year. That second number, not the first, sets the limits on everyone who drinks from the basin. Lakes…...
Remote island is a bird refuge with exceptionally dark night skies
1+ week, 6+ day ago (726+ words) much of its landscape remains protected. Rakiura National Park covers about 157,000 hectares, or roughly...