The ice sheet that covered North America during the last interglacial period may have lasted longer than previously thought, which could spell trouble for New York City in a warming world. (Image credit: Photo collage by Marilyn Perkins; images by…
An illustration of a Dyson sphere surrounded by a star (Image credit: Marc Ward/Stocktrek Images/Getty) Dyson spheres, theoretical megastructures that advanced alien civilizations could use to envelop a star and extract its energy, have a serious flaw: They are horribly…
Only a small fraction of Florida's Burmese python population survived the January 2010 cold snap. (Photo courtesy of Mark Conlin via Alamy) Fifteen years ago, a cold snap froze much of Florida’s wildlife, including many of the state’s invasive Burmese…
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Melting ice sheets could cause the North Pole to shift 89 feet (27 meters) by 2100
The lava lakes of Nyamuragira (top) and Nyiragongo (bottom) glow red in this 2014 infrared satellite image. (Image credit: NASA/Landsat) This stunning false-color satellite image shows intense heat emanating from a pair of lava lakes formed by simultaneously erupting volcanoes…