These small, inexpensive changes can help protect your home against wildfires
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,…
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Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is…
Continue Reading2024 was the hottest year on record, breaching a critical climate goal and capping 10 years of unprecedented heat
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…
Continue ReadingFrom flooding rain to unmitigated wildfire: Why California is ground zero for disasters
By Mary Gilbert and Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — Southern California was under water less than a year ago. A siege of torrential rain from…
Continue ReadingNearly 200 Jurassic footprints unearthed on ‘dinosaur highway’
By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic…
Continue ReadingNASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the…
Continue ReadingTrump wants to buy Greenland again. Here’s why he’s so interested in the world’s largest island
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. landed in Greenland, the Arctic island his father, President-elect Donald Trump,…
Continue ReadingOrca mom is carrying a dead calf for the second time, raising concerns among scientists
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…
Continue ReadingPresident Biden to establish two new national monuments in California
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…
Continue ReadingScientists discover concerning new source of ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A group of potentially toxic “forever chemicals,” mostly coming from prescribed drugs, may be contaminating…
Continue ReadingOn a long-dormant pad in Florida, a rocket that could challenge SpaceX’s dominance is poised to launch
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…
Continue ReadingWhy ‘Kessler Syndrome’ could turn from a hypothetical to a space disaster reality
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Exploring space has opened our eyes to numerous wonders, but these cosmic feats haven’t come without…
Continue Reading‘Mystery volcano’ that erupted and cooled Earth in 1831 has finally been identified
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate. Now, nearly 200 years…
Continue ReadingMassive ‘space object’ fragment crashes into remote village in Kenya
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…
Continue ReadingHow to watch the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year
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,…
Continue ReadingWhen to see ‘blood’ moons, eclipses and meteor showers in 2025
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With the arrival of a new year comes plenty of opportunities to witness a bevy of celestial events that will…
Continue ReadingScientists have identified an estimated 10% of all species on Earth. Here’s what they found in 2024
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A toothy toadstool. A vegetarian piranha with a distinctive mark. And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean…
Continue ReadingThe comb jelly, one of the oldest animals on Earth, can fuse with another
By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts,…
Continue ReadingHuman composting is rising in popularity as an earth-friendly life after death
By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive…
Continue ReadingThe bird at the center of the worst single-species mortality event in modern history isn’t recovering, scientists say
By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska’s common murre population, marking the largest…
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