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Rainforest quiz: Can you sort Earth's largest rainforests from biggest to smallest?Quiz From the sprawling Amazon to the lesser-known tropical forests, see if you can correctly rank these rainforests by their total area.
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Atlantic 'cold blob' is responsible for shifts in the Indian summer monsoon that threaten over 1 billion peopleAn abnormally cold patch of water in the North Atlantic Ocean has triggered changes in the Indian summer monsoon via the jet stream winds, new research suggests.
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'River in the Sky': China's doomed plan to create a 'cloud seeding corridor' tells us how far the country will go to solve its climate crisisScience Spotlight China's willingness to invest billions in a quixotic, doomed plan to create a permanent river in the sky reveals the lengths it is willing to go to to engineer its way out of a climate crisis.
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A Texas-size chunk of winter sea ice is missing from Antarctica — and it's probably not coming backAn area of ice nearly the size of Texas has failed to form over the Bellingshausen Sea, off western Antarctica, as researchers investigate the links between sea ice loss and global warming.
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'The system is critically stressed': San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study findsThe San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture at one fault could propagate to the other, researchers found.
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Indonesia's near-identical, 'Twin Peaks' volcanoes form striking mirror imageEarth from space A 2021 astronaut photo shows the surprising similarities between Mount Sundoro and Mount Sumbing, which lie at the heart of Java, Indonesia.
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Summer solstice 2026: When does summer start in the Northern Hemisphere?What is the summer solstice, and when does it happen? The longest day of the year falls on either June 20 or 21 every year in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about the start of summer.
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Atacama Desert’s center dried out 20 million years earlier than previously thought — before the Andes formedChile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of rainfall each year, started to form more than 40 million years ago — 20 million years before the Andes.
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'They are trying to tame nature': China is building the world's biggest dam in an earthquake-prone region of TibetScience Spotlight China is building a dam system that will generate more hydroelectric power than the U.S. generates yearly. But the project comes with huge risks for people downstream.
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