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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…...
California’s famous alien landscape seen from space
4+ day, 13+ 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…...
Africa’s savanna existed millions of years earlier than expected
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (1038+ words) Ancient ocean sediments reveal that Africa’s open grasslands began forming millions of years earlier than previously thought, long before modern grasses took over. The African savanna is one of the most recognizable landscapes on the planet: open grass, a few…...
How we talk to kids about nature can change how much they care
3+ week, 1+ day ago (862+ words) How teachers frame nature can shape children's interest in environmental issues, with human-centered lessons producing a stronger short-term response. Ask a room of ten-year-olds why a wetland is worth protecting, and it turns out the answer you give them matters…...
Ancient wildfires may have inspired one of humanity’s biggest inventions
2+ day, 11+ 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…...
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…...
Remote island is a bird refuge with exceptionally dark night skies
1+ week, 6+ day ago (726+ words) Stewart Island/Rakiura is a wild corner of New Zealand filled with native birds, ancient forests, rugged beaches, and remarkably dark skies. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features the wild, forest-covered landscape of Stewart Island/Rakiura…...
A massive dust storm erupts in West Africa as the seasons change
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (697+ words) A massive dust storm swept across West Africa in early September, sending a plume over Mali and eventually toward the Atlantic Ocean. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows a massive cloud of dust sweeping across West…...
Coastal marsh erosion is moving huge amounts of carbon into the ocean
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1019+ words) Coastal marshes lock away carbon for centuries. But when they erode, that buried carbon slips sideways into the sea. Coastal marshes sit where land meets the sea. Their plants trap mud and sand, while their soils store carbon from roots…...