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It’s nesting season for sea turtles
Adult female sea turtles - on beaches from North Carolina to Texas and throughout the Caribbean - are crawling out of the ocean and laying their eggs. Here's an update from a biologist who's been studying these turtles for 36 years.
May 7, 2018
Help NASA create the world’s largest landslide database
NASA researchers have launched a citizen science project requesting your reports on landslides you've seen, heard about in the news, or found in an online database. Photos welcome!
May 7, 2018
Ample warning for supervolcanos?
Yellowstone's supervolcano won't erupt anytime soon. Neither will other similar systems around the world. A new study says we'll see many warning signs before a supervolcano erupts.
May 3, 2018
See 15 years of change in the Arctic
Mesmerizing new video, made from 15 years of satellite data, shows the waxing and waning of Arctic ice and snow as the seasons change.
May 2, 2018
Cool video! When humans stalked a giant sloth
Fossil footprints track a prehistoric hunt.
April 29, 2018
Curious holes in Arctic sea ice
Warming seawater might be the culprit, or seals might have gnawed the holes. For now, the strange circular holes in Arctic sea ice, photographed earlier this month, are mysterious.
April 29, 2018
Record microplastic found in Arctic sea ice
New research shows that even the Arctic Ocean isn't immune to an influx of plastic.
April 26, 2018
Giant ichthyosaur one of largest animals ever
The new discovery of a jaw bone suggests that this prehistoric aquatic reptile would have been about the size of a blue whale.
April 25, 2018
Watch the mating dance of a new bird species
Be a birder for a few minutes, and enjoy the distinctive song, dance and courtship display of a newly recognized Bird-of-Paradise, in new videos from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
April 25, 2018
These sea turtles use magnetic fields like GPS
"They might not always make it back to the exact beach where they were born, and instead might opt for beaches with similar magnetic properties, as if their internal GPS has just slightly mixed up addresses."
April 24, 2018
