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Sep. 23, 2026 Some tropical trees have evolved a clever way to survive drought by taking in carbon dioxide at night, allowing them to keep their pores closed during the hot daytime and conserve water.

Measuring the motion of tectonic plates is part of the science of geodesy. To define the shape of the Earth, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey, part of the National Ocean Service, uses a variety of ...

Sun news for October 4-5, 2026. A snapshot of an aurora captured by Larry Olson’s webcam in Lake Vermilion, MN. The image is from October 4, 2026, at 22:43 local time. Image via YouTube. Flare ...

Extreme heat is putting pregnant mothers and their newborns at increasing risk, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell will warn on Monday. As Ted Schuur stepped along the edges of Smith Lake, a ...

Satellite photograph of the Great Barrier Reef situated off the northeastern coast of Australia. Stretching for 1,429 miles over an area of approximately 133,000 square miles , the Great Barrier Reef ...

There's an aurora season around the equinoxes, due to the way the magnetic fields of the sun and the Earth work in conjunction with sun-Earth geometry. The Inouye Solar Telescope has captured the ...

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Where does this live distance data come from? I source Sun's distance from Earth via the Horizon JPL API. It is a free service provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that offers access to ...

Rice production is critical to global food security, but it has unintended consequences: water stress, greenhouse gas emissions and disease-vector mosquitoes and snails, usually addressed by separate ...

A view of the world that has prevailed for around 450 years has been challenged. On 4 September, the United Nations General Assembly voted to phase out use of the Mercator map, a sixteenth-century ...

Follow along as EPA celebrates Earth Day by sharing actions, information, and updates about how YOU can celebrate Earth Day. Learn how EPA protects the environment and builds a brighter, healthier ...