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Nearly all international internet traffic voyages along a handful of submarine fibre-optic cable highways. They make ...

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Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

This supercontinent formed hundreds of millions of years ago and helps explain why distant places share similar fossils, why ...

A student-led program, Plastic Pirates, has turned more than 25,000 young people into plastic pollution researchers.

Bhag Singh’s grandson Darshan Singh Deol is on a mission to piece together his grandfather's lost legacy, seeking official ...

Invertebrates dominate the animal kingdom, making up 97 percent of all creatures. These animals, lacking a backbone, display ...

In The War Between the Land and the Sea, Salt unleashes global plastic rain in Episode 2 and sets the next negotiation ...

The essayists write that at the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly conference this week, to be held in Nairobi, ...

Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked waters ...