Five-year forecast paints a troubling picture of extreme weather and deadly heat
By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Global temperatures are forecast to reach record or near-record levels during the next five years, setting the…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Global temperatures are forecast to reach record or near-record levels during the next five years, setting the…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected an astonishing celestial object emitting bright flashes of radio waves and X-rays…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What scientists understand about the voracious feeding habits of the colossal megalodon could be up for some…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Forget marching in the streets with creative signs. For President Donald Trump’s second term, in the face of…
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting a proposed regulation that would end all federal limits on…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An Anglo-Saxon ship found at the Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk, England, has long captivated history…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have for the first time spotted two galaxies in the throes of a deep-space “duel.” Using combined…
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — A new study may have uncovered exactly what makes orange cats special — though it might not be for the reason…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal-clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Distinct clawed footprints found on a slab of 356 million-year-old rock from Australia suggest that reptile…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Ten gold bracelets, 17 cigar cases, a powder compact, a comb, and a whopping 598 gold coins: The items are all part…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Sometime between today and 200 years from now, scientists say “the big one” will hit the United States. There…
Continue ReadingBy Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Last summer, an abandoned factory in southwest Memphis got a new life courtesy of the world’s…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Climate change should be considered a new core aspect of creditworthiness when prospective home buyers apply…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Beneath the rough waters of South Australia’s coast, marine archaeologists say they have discovered the lost…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Flooding on the US Northeast coast has risen significantly as a critical network of Atlantic Ocean currents…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of obsidian artifacts have revealed where the Aztecs acquired the volcanic glass they used for…
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Elam, CNN (CNN) — The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum…
Continue ReadingBy Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from…
Continue ReadingBy Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A biologist tracking whales in the Norwegian fjords, a vast telescope pictured below breathtaking skies and a…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of spring,…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes, a great find is hiding right beneath one’s nose in the humblest of places: on paper.…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday its well-known “billion-dollar weather…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Things are heating up hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon, where a large undersea volcano is showing…
Continue ReadingBy Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Crashing waves, glistening sea spray, a calm expanse of deep blue. These are the images that open “Ocean with…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex would have arrived in North America after crossing a land bridge from Asia,…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author…
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is preparing to eliminate two key Environmental Protection Agency divisions…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A piece of a Soviet vehicle that malfunctioned en route to Venus more than 50 years ago is due to crash back to…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For many people, the term “mummy” usually brings to mind images of Egyptian sarcophagi. But the history…
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Eta Aquariid meteor shower has reached its peak — and you’ll need to get up early to see this…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have been trying to determine the cosmic origins of the heaviest elements, like gold, for…
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