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For thousands of years, the Barnes Ice Cap has held its ground on Baffin Island — a remnant of the last ice age, reliably blanketed in snow through the height of summer. By mid-July 2026, that snow was essentially gone. NASA satellite imagery tells the story in two frames: a snow-covered ice cap on June ... Read more
The bass comes out of the water clean and cold, the way a good catch always does. The angler had done everything right. Kept the fish on ice, filleted it that evening, cooked it that night. One fish. One meal. That meal is common across the country, especially along the Great Lakes and in river ... Read more
An expedition off California has delivered fresh data on deep-sea life. Scientists worked from Monterey Bay to the Channel Islands, with the target being a type of gelatinous plankton. Specialized robotic underwater equipment was put to work, capable of moving through a wide range of temperatures and light levels. Researchers came across several rare species ... Read more
On a misty trail in a mountain village, a scientist stopped at a fence made from split cane. Two dark, bristled legs were poking out through a crack. He coaxed their owner into the open: a small, fast-moving spider. It would not sit still to be admired. Instead, it bolted in quick, jerky bursts, moving ... Read more
Vietnamese cocoa processor Trong Duc Cocoa Co. Ltd. is addressing a unique issue annually. Approximately 5,000 tons of empty cocoa pods remain after harvesting and processing raw cocoa fruit. Most of each cocoa fruit does not become chocolate. Instead, it becomes waste that must be managed or disposed of. Those massive mounds of waste may ... Read more
The boat comes past and you hear the water before you hear the boat. There is no exhaust note, no fuel smell, no wake worth naming. The roof is a flat sheet of dark blue glass. Underneath it are a bed, a galley and a motor, and the whole thing has come from the Baltic to the Spanish coast without ... Read more
There’s a galaxy 17 million light-years away that appears to stare back. Its defining feature — a dark, bruised ring encircling a brilliant core — has earned it the name “Black Eye Galaxy” and drawn the gaze of astronomers since its discovery in 1779. Now, two of the most powerful telescopes ever built have turned ... Read more
On Ireland’s Atlantic edge, something about the size of a small sail hangs in grey sky above a stretch of peat bog. It is not a balloon. It is not a drone and it is not a glider. It is a fabric wing tethered to the ground on a rope, and the rope is doing all ... Read more
New Jersey state regulators are reconsidering placing floating solar farms on public water resources. One project on the Wanaque Reservoir is back in development after the renewable energy initiative was stalled by administrative delays. It also has the backing of environmental officials, which comes with a major state financial incentive. The utility’s operators are now ... Read more
Somewhere in a museum’s cold back rooms, a pale fish has floated in a jar for longer than anyone working there has been alive. It does not look like a whale, or a monster, or anything strange. For all that time, no one realized these creatures were the same animal. They sat on different shelves, filed ... Read more
