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The Tonga Eruption Is Still Revealing New Volcanic Dangers
It’s clear that Hunga involved an unusually explosive recipe that may not be easily replicated. For about a month, the…
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Florida Is Fighting to Feed Starving Manatees This Winter
Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s plant…
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The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard
Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound…
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The Extraordinary Shelf Life of the Deep Sea Sandwiches
In the late 1960s, a submersible named Alvin suffered a mishap off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The bulbous white vessel,…
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The Mystery of Alaska’s Disappearing Whales
This story originally appeared in Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Roswell Schaeffer Sr. was 8…
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The Geological Fluke That’s Protecting Sea Life in the Galapagos
This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Pushed by climate change, almost…
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A Caustic Shift Is Coming for the Arctic Ocean
Imagine, for a moment, that you are standing on a pier by the sea, grasping, somewhat inexplicably, a bowling ball.…
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‘We Are the Asteroid’: The Case for Hope Amid Climate Fears
Earth’s atmosphere, as it exists, is both a profound statistical anomaly and the very thing that makes human life possible.…
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Electric Fish Genomes Reveal How Evolution Repeats Itself
Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or…
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What Humans Can Learn From the Sea Cucumber’s Toxic Arsenal
But this chemical defense creates a big problem for sea cucumbers: They need to avoid killing themselves with their own…
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