Imperceptibly small bits of dust from space fall to Earth in a perpetual microscopic meteor shower.Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls Some 10,000 grand pianos’ worth of space dust…
Formosa Plastics Plant Tests Joe Biden on Environmental Justice
In March 2020, St. James Parish residents Myrtle Felton, Sharon Lavigne, Gail LeBoeuf, and Rita Cooper protest Formosa’s proposed plastic complex at the site where…
Amazon Can’t Just Change Its Rules to Squash Activism, NLRB Finding Suggests
Amazon workers begin to gather in front of the Spheres, participating in the climate strike Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, in Seattle.Photo: Elaine Thompson (AP) The…
A Toxin From Blue-Green Algae Can Go Airborne, Study Finds
A blue-green algae bloom documented along the St. Lucie River in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, on July 5, 2016. Photo: Rhona Wise (Getty Images) A…
Man Driving Home Discovers Thousands of Bees In His Car
Photo: Las Cruces Fire Department Engine 2 Public Image (Fair Use) Do you hear that? Buzz buzz. Vroom vroom. Buzz, buzz. Vroom vroom. That’s the…
New Research Exposes Weird ‘Meteotsunamis’ Caused by Gravity Waves
Water rolling off a breakwall in the April 2018 meteotsunami event.Photo: Debbie Maglothin (Other) On April 13, 2018, a huge swell of water broke on…
This Isn’t Art. It’s an Aerial View of a Trash-Filled Landscape
Photo: Gaston Brito Miserocchi (Getty Images) Some of the trash that plagues Lake Uru Uru includes old toys, shoes, used diapers, thousands of single-use bottles,…
Joe Biden’s Offshore Wind Plan Is Ambitious—and Achievable
Wind turbines stand in the Baltic 1 offshore wind farm near Germany.Photo: Joern Pollex (Getty Images) If President Joe Biden has his way, the U.S.…
Freaky New Feature Detected in Jupiter’s Northern Lights
Jupiter’s northern auroras. Image: NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University of Leicester) A newly detected auroral feature on Jupiter bears a striking resemblance to expanding…
Extinct Kangaroo Could Climb Trees With Its Huge Claws
Skulls of the newly described extinct kangaroo.Image: N. Warburton, Murdoch University A new study describes a “semiarboreal kangaroo” that lived 40,000 years ago in Australia.…