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The giant black hole hiding in an almost empty galaxy that puzzles NASA
Did you know that the James Webb Space Telescope has just spotted one of the most puzzling objects ever observed in the

Why the UN is forecasting years of near-record heat through 2030
Did you know that the United Nations has just published a climate projection that upends the usual benchmarks for global warming? According

Mont Blanc's glaciers never this dry this early in July
According to several glaciologists present on the ground, the Mont Blanc massif has reportedly never shown, this early in July 2026, such

Parts of the Atacama Desert have never seen a drop of rain
When people think of the driest places on Earth, they naturally picture the Sahara or the polar regions. Yet the title of

How carnivorous plants digest their prey using electricity
The Venus flytrap, one of the most famous carnivorous plants in the world, closes its trap in just 100 milliseconds, an impressive

A third of the world's food depends on pollinating insects
Roughly 35 percent of global agricultural production intended for human food depends, at least partially, on pollination by insects, primarily bees, but

The boreal forest stores more carbon than all tropical forests combined
Stretching unbroken across Russia, Canada, and Scandinavia, the boreal forest, also known as the taiga, is the largest terrestrial biome on the

Did the world's glaciers really lose 408 billion tonnes of ice
An international scientific study has revealed that 2025 ranks among the worst years ever recorded for global glacier melt, with an estimated

Swiss glaciers ran out of all their winter snow before July
For the first time since glaciological measurements began, Swiss glaciers exhausted their entire reserve of winter snow before July 1, 2026. This