The Arctic is having holes stabbed through it at an alarming rate
Residents of the small Alaskan town Kongiganak can no longer bury their dead. Their cemetery has become a marshy swamp, sucking graves into the once frozen ground.
Residents of the small Alaskan town Kongiganak can no longer bury their dead. Their cemetery has become a marshy swamp, sucking graves into the once frozen ground.
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Spiky, voracious and multiplying at an alarming rate, sea urchins are destroying marine ecosystems around the world. The solution? Eat them, according to one company.
Sitting off the north coast of Scotland, on the depths of the ocean floor, a gigantic feat of engineering has just achieved a significant milestone.
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Following a year of floods and droughts, when fires ravaged Australia and the Amazon, and teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was chosen as Time’s Person of the Year, it is perhaps li...
There are an estimated 272 million international migrants around the world. And while that equals just 3.5% of the world’s population, it already surpasses some projections for 2050. Sinc...
From technology entrepreneur Elon Musk to former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer and business mogul Richard Branson, there is no shortage of successful people claiming to need just a few hours’ ...
The Sumatran rhino once roamed Asia. Today, fewer than 100 remain – and in fact, some estimates put the number as low as 30.
Kapow! Thwack! Boom! Who knew the price tags on comics could pack such a punch?
In the past five years, the threat posed by far-right extremism and terrorism in the West has spiked sharply.
When Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim was a child, Lake Chad in her home country spanned 10,000 km2. These days it’s around 1,200 km2.
Toronto residents’ trash will soon be powering the collection of yet more trash. The Canadian city says it wants to become one of the first in North America to convert biogas created from...
We all know the feeling of panic when your mobile phone is about to die when you're out and about – and the feeling of relief when you find a convenient place to give it a power boost.