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When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...
Temperatures across lower South America have plummeted – falling as low as -15° Celsius or 5° Fahrenheit in some places – as ...
Earth’s magnetic shield protects us from the Sun’s deadly solar wind—except at the polar cusps, where energy funnels straight toward Earth. NASA’s TRACERS mission will send two spacecraft through ...
A team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP), Pusan National University in South Korea and the Alfred Wegener Institute, ...
Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...
On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...
Former NFL tight end Jimmy Graham has conquered a new frontier -- not on the football field, but across the frigid waters of ...
Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...
The polar regions offer some of the harshest and most dynamic ecosystems on Earth. These areas are defined by their extreme ...
Around 252 million years ago, Earth faced a catastrophic event that changed the course of life on our planet forever. This mass extinction event wiped out nearly 96% of marine life, 70% of land ...
They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements essential for high-technology and national security applications.
Indian travel influencer Ankita Kumar travelled to two Siberian cities in winter, where temperatures drop as low as -70 ...