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How Sea Level Rise Is Measured—and Why It's Underestimated Science

How Sea Level Rise Is Measured—and Why It's Underestimated

Sea levels are rising faster than most models assumed—and a 2026 study found a systematic flaw in how scientists measure baseline coastal heights. Her...

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Why Scientists Think Orcas Might Be Several Species Science

Why Scientists Think Orcas Might Be Several Species

Killer whales look alike, but resident fish-eaters and mammal-hunting Bigg's orcas are so genetically and culturally distinct that researchers now arg...

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What Are Lazarus Species and How Do They Survive? Science

What Are Lazarus Species and How Do They Survive?

Lazarus species are animals and plants once declared extinct that later turn up alive. Scientists explain why they vanish from the fossil record — and...

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How Sea Level Rise Is Measured—and Why It's Off Science

How Sea Level Rise Is Measured—and Why It's Off

Scientists use tide gauges and satellites to track rising oceans, but a landmark 2026 study found that 90% of coastal hazard assessments have been usi...

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Amazon Insects at the Edge: Half Face Lethal Heat Science

Amazon Insects at the Edge: Half Face Lethal Heat

A landmark Nature study of over 2,000 insect species finds that rising temperatures could push half of Amazon lowland insects past their survival limi...

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Why Tropical Insects Can't Cope With a Warming World Science

Why Tropical Insects Can't Cope With a Warming World

Tropical insects already live dangerously close to their upper heat limits, and unlike their highland cousins, they cannot adapt fast enough. A landma...

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How Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents Support Life Without Sun Science

How Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents Support Life Without Sun

Miles beneath the ocean surface, hydrothermal vents host thriving ecosystems powered not by sunlight but by chemicals — overturning everything scienti...

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What Are Zombie Fires and Why They Threaten the Climate Science

What Are Zombie Fires and Why They Threaten the Climate

Underground peat fires can smolder invisibly for months, re-igniting across entire seasons and releasing carbon stored for thousands of years — creati...

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Why Tropical Insects Are Nearing Their Heat Limit Science

Why Tropical Insects Are Nearing Their Heat Limit

A landmark study of more than 2,000 insect species reveals that tropical insects already live dangerously close to their thermal ceiling — and unlike...

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Antarctic Hektoria Glacier Retreats 8 km in Two Months Science

Antarctic Hektoria Glacier Retreats 8 km in Two Months

Antarctica's Hektoria Glacier lost eight kilometres of ice in just 60 days — the fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history — forcing sci...

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Three Hottest Years in History Stump Climate Scientists Science

Three Hottest Years in History Stump Climate Scientists

The years 2023, 2024 and 2025 were the three hottest on record — and they exceeded scientific forecasts by a margin that has left leading climate rese...

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Giant Tortoises Return to Floreana After 150-Year Absence Science

Giant Tortoises Return to Floreana After 150-Year Absence

On February 20, 2026, Galápagos National Park released 158 captive-bred giant tortoises onto Floreana Island — the first return of the species in over...

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