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Someday, Earth Will Have a Final Total Solar Eclipse
The moon will drift far enough from Earth that it no longer fully obstructs the sun. But predicting when this will happen poses numerous challenges.
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The White House Has That Sinking Feeling (Thanks to an Artist)
Kiyan Williams, for their Whitney Biennial commission, recreated the column-lined facade from soil. Viewers can watch as it crumbles, sprouts plants and births insects.
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How Earth Might Have Turned Into a Snowball
A team of scientists thinks the planet may have been thrust into its longest ice age because less gas leaked out of volcanoes.
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Told Ya So: The Prescient Posters of the Environmental Movement
Graphic artists have been helping call attention to climate change for decades, and a new exhibition charts the evolution of their pleas.
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A Supernova ‘Destroyed’ Some of Earth’s Ozone for a Few Minutes in 2022
A new study suggests that explosive events in space have the potential to temporarily switch off the natural shield that protects us from harmful solar radiation.
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Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Key Earthlike Feature
A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have had plate tectonics that could have made it more hospitable to life.
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Revering the Earth, Colombian Artist Delcy Morelos Brings It to Chelsea
To make sense of her country’s history of violence, the artist evokes beauty in the land. At Dia, you can smell, enter and touch.
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Days on Mars Are Getting Shorter
The discovery, using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, is puzzling to scientists who study the red planet.
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How to Pray With Our Eyes Open
April is my favorite month in Austin, my hometown. The banks along the highways burst with wildflowers. Bluebonnets preside over dainty, pink buttercups playing with bold black-eyed Susans. Trees glisten with their chirpy new green. Birds ...
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Caves, Tents and Shipping Containers: Quake Survivors’ Desperate Hunt for Shelter
For now, the Turkish government is relying on short-term solutions to house an estimated one million who are crowding into gyms, hotels and dormitories. A cruise ship is set to arrive to house thousands.
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