Category Archives: The Planet
Camper exploring with Google Maps accidentally discovers mysterious crater in Quebec
A team of French and Canadian scientists are currently investigating the odd formation to confirm [...]
Incredible animation shows how much Earth’s continents have shifted in 1.8 billion years
The study not only provided useful information about the formation of previous supercontinents but also [...]
Astounding satellite images reveal the remains of ‘ghost city’ in the middle of Pacific Ocean
A satellite image captures the entire structure of a semi-submerged city in the Pacific Ocean [...]
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When a Glacial Dam Burst, an Alaskan Town Was Hit With a Sudden Flood
Intense flooding continued on August 7, after the sudden draining of a glacial lake near [...]
Ground-breaking discovery of ‘dark oxygen’ in depths of Pacific Ocean baffles scientists
Scientists found a new source of oxygen supply and it is making them question the [...]
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Inside the Effort to Save Earth’s Biocrusts
Biocrust in Utah Nihonjoe via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 Under the dry, piercing heat [...]
HarperCollins saved over 5,000 trees with tiny but impactful decision
The publishers have introduced a tiny change to their book design, hence saving thousands of [...]
NASA astronaut who watched Earth from space for 178 days realized humanity is ‘living a lie’
Ron Garan explained what the Earth looked like from space and his understanding has our [...]
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The Race to Save Mezcal From the World
The village of Santa Catarina Minas, a 25-mile drive south from the city of Oaxaca, [...]
Defense system common to all life came from ‘Asgard’
Defense systems found in all complex life, including the human body, came from primeval microbes [...]
Earth from space: Picturesque plankton paint peculiar patterns in Patagonia
This 2014 satellite photo shows a gigantic, multicolor phytoplankton bloom swirling off the coast of [...]
Rare ‘moonbows’ light up night sky across US as blue supermoon rises — and you could still spot another one
At least two lunar rainbows, including a stunning “double moonbow,” have been spotted above the [...]
Oceanographers discover gigantic undersea mountain taller than Mount Olympus in the Pacific Ocean
The mountain is four times the size of Burj Khalifa and hosts a colorful diversity [...]
Weird mystery waves that baffle scientists may be ‘everywhere’ inside Earth’s mantle
Structures that scatter seismic waves deep in Earth’s mantle seem to be everywhere researchers look. [...]
Bizarre ‘dead’ star wakes up after 10 years and starts emitting mysterious radio waves baffling scientists
This neutron star’s core is so dense that its magnetic field is quadrillions of times [...]