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In recent years, museums have expressed their wishes to rethink their pasts, returning looted objects, acknowledging the original inhabitants of the land where they are located, and taking steps to deepen their collections of art by women and artists of color. But a collective of artists and agricul...
The winners of the 2025 Epson International Pano awards have been announced, showcasing photographs of our great, big, beautiful world in ultra-wide glory. Italy’s Alex Wides (Alessandro Cantarelli) won the Open Photographer of the Year and the Nature/Landscape category for his fine-art landscapes (...
Thousands of mollusks and worms have been discovered by a Chinese submersible in the Mariana Trench, almost six miles below sea level. The new study revealed it is the deepest colony of animals ever observed. “Hadal trenches, some of the Earth’s least explored and understood environments, have long ...
Fiber optic cables crisscross the world’s ocean like a spiderweb, transmitting vast amounts of data as pulses of light. What if they could also be used to listen in on life below the waves? An experiment just launched in coastal waters on the northwestern edge of the United States could soon provide...
A new roof paint could allow you to stay cool while providing water to drink. Australian researchers have developed a nanoengineered polymer coating that reduces surface temperature by up to 6 °C even on hot days, and that harvests moisture from air. The coating should cost slightly more than premiu...
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Shifting humanity to more plant-based diets would cut global farm labor needs by up to 28%, freeing up almost USD$100 billion each year—but at the cost of over 100 million jobs. These striking figures from a new Lancet Planetary Health study reveal the flipside to the sustainable diet transition: ho...
The planet just crossed a grim milestone: last year’s global temperature averaged more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, shredding our margin for error under the Paris Agreement. That doesn’t doom the goal forever, but it leaves little room for delay. Clinging to energy decarbonization alone w...
New York is now the first state in the U.S. to require new buildings to be built entirely electric, without hookups to fossil fuels including gas, the New York State Assembly reported. The rule was initially passed in 2023 as the All-Electric Buildings Act and was finalized with the State Fire Preve...
By Olivia Rosane and Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Quick Key Facts Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and is responsible for around one-third of current global heating. Atmospheric methane concentrations have increased by 256 percent since pre-industrial times. Metha...
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New research finds that Hektoria, a grounded glacier in Antarctica, shrank with astounding speed in 2022 and 2023...
