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Ottawa police chief is leaving his post, city officials say amid ongoing protests

February 15, 2022 1:25 am CNN Newsource

By Kelly McCleary and Holly Yan, CNN Amid ongoing protests against Canada’s Covid-19 regulations, officials in Canada’s capital and the…

Tsunami threat passes following powerful earthquake in Mexico

September 19, 2022 12:47 pm CNN Newsource

By Karol Suarez, Brandon Miller, Juan Carlos Paz, Florencia Trucco and Hande Atay Alam, CNN A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the…

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is seen on a launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on December 27

Ice core may hold answers to mysteries of Earth’s past

January 12, 2025 9:23 am CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is hiding deep beneath its white polar…

The Blue Ring Pathfinder demonstrator is seen with one half of the New Glenn rocket's payload fairing

A powerful potential challenger to SpaceX’s rocket dominance is poised to launch

January 11, 2025 10:46 am CNN Newsource

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Nearly a quarter century after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the rocket company is poised for its most…

Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say

January 10, 2025 4:09 pm CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long)…

The remains of a home following the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on January 10.

These small, inexpensive changes can help protect your home against wildfires

January 10, 2025 12:29 pm CNN Newsource

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Hardening a home against wildfires doesn’t need to take thousands of dollars for a fire-resistant roof or siding,…

A composite of enhanced color images showcase Pluto (lower right) and its large moon Charon (upper left)

Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory

January 10, 2025 6:16 am CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is…

Firefighters battle flames from the Palisades Fire on January 8

2024 was the hottest year on record, breaching a critical climate goal and capping 10 years of unprecedented heat

January 9, 2025 7:00 pm CNN Newsource

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It’s official: 2024 was the hottest year on record, breaking the previous record set in 2023 and pushing the…

A staircase remains standing amid the ruins of a burnt structure along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu

From flooding rain to unmitigated wildfire: Why California is ground zero for disasters

January 9, 2025 3:00 pm CNN Newsource

By Mary Gilbert and Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — Southern California was under water less than a year ago. A siege of torrential rain from…

Aerial drone photography captured in April 2024 shows the Oxfordshire "dinosaur highway" site before the excavation.

Nearly 200 Jurassic footprints unearthed on ‘dinosaur highway’

January 8, 2025 3:00 pm CNN Newsource

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic…

This illustration for the original concept of Mars Sample Return shows multiple robots that would team up to ferry samples to Earth from the red planet.

NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache

January 7, 2025 1:54 pm CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the…

One of many research stations on the Greenland ice sheet that scientists use to track its movement and elevation.

Trump wants to buy Greenland again. Here’s why he’s so interested in the world’s largest island

January 7, 2025 9:59 am CNN Newsource

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. landed in Greenland, the Arctic island his father, President-elect Donald Trump,…

Some female orcas have been known to carry their deceased offspring

Orca mom is carrying a dead calf for the second time, raising concerns among scientists

January 7, 2025 6:28 am CNN Newsource

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Tahlequah, the mother orca denoted as J35 who captured hearts worldwide in 2018 by carrying her dead calf for 17…

Sáttítla National Monument in Northern California will be designated near Mount Shasta

President Biden to establish two new national monuments in California

January 7, 2025 2:00 am CNN Newsource

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will declare two new national monuments in California on Tuesday in what will be one of his…

According to a recent study 45% of the tap water in the United States is contaminated with "forever chemicals" that are considered dangerous to human health.

Scientists discover concerning new source of ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

January 6, 2025 12:00 pm CNN Newsource

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A group of potentially toxic “forever chemicals,” mostly coming from prescribed drugs, may be contaminating…

The New Glenn rocket is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as early as next week. In this December 9

On a long-dormant pad in Florida, a rocket that could challenge SpaceX’s dominance is poised to launch

January 4, 2025 11:00 am CNN Newsource

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — On a Florida launchpad that has been dormant for almost two decades, a new, roughly 320-foot (98-meter) rocket…

A computer-generated artists impression released by the European Space Agency (ESA) depicts an approximation of 12

Why ‘Kessler Syndrome’ could turn from a hypothetical to a space disaster reality

January 4, 2025 8:00 am CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Exploring space has opened our eyes to numerous wonders, but these cosmic feats haven’t come without…

Simushir Island in the northwest Pacific was the source of a previously unidentified 1831 eruption. The remote and uninhabited Simushir is part of the Kuril Islands

‘Mystery volcano’ that erupted and cooled Earth in 1831 has finally been identified

January 3, 2025 5:17 am CNN Newsource

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate. Now, nearly 200 years…

Massive ‘space object’ fragment crashes into remote village in Kenya

January 2, 2025 4:56 pm CNN Newsource

By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents…

A Quadrantid meteor streaks across the sky over the Beypazari district of Ankara

How to watch the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year

January 2, 2025 5:00 am CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The new year kicks off with the peak of the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year,…