The world’s ice sheets just got a dire prognosis, and coastlines are going to pay the price
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Sometime between today and 200 years from now, scientists say “the big one” will hit the United States. There…
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By Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin…
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By Laura Paddison, Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Last summer, an abandoned factory in southwest Memphis got a new life courtesy of the world’s…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Climate change should be considered a new core aspect of creditworthiness when prospective home buyers apply…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Beneath the rough waters of South Australia’s coast, marine archaeologists say they have discovered the lost…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Flooding on the US Northeast coast has risen significantly as a critical network of Atlantic Ocean currents…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of obsidian artifacts have revealed where the Aztecs acquired the volcanic glass they used for…
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By Stephanie Elam, CNN (CNN) — The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum…
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By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from…
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By Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A biologist tracking whales in the Norwegian fjords, a vast telescope pictured below breathtaking skies and a…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of spring,…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes, a great find is hiding right beneath one’s nose in the humblest of places: on paper.…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the…
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