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Picture this: a squad of iguanas, clinging to a floating tangle of vegetation, bobbing across 5,000 miles of open ocean like reptilian castaways. Sounds like the plot of a rejected sci-fi film, right? Except it actually happened—millions of years ago, these tenacious...
America’s Birds Are Vanishing—And That’s a Bad Sign for Everyone
The numbers are in, and they’re bleak. The 2025 U.S. State of the Birds report just dropped, confirming what scientists, conservationists, and any backyard birdwatcher with a functioning set of eyes already suspected—America’s bird populations are spiraling downward....
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A sleeping giant in Alaska just stirred, and scientists are watching it like a bad prophecy coming true. Mount Spurr, a hulking volcano 75 miles from Anchorage, has started leaking volcanic gases at an alarming rate. Translation: fresh magma is on the move beneath the...
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Take a deep breath. That sweet, life-sustaining oxygen you just inhaled? You might owe it to a few billion years of volcanic chaos. Before Earth became the breathable paradise (relatively speaking) it is today, our atmosphere was a suffocating wasteland of carbon...
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