A scientist on board captured the moment the glacier crashed into the ocean. Credit: Alice Fremand Scientists aboard Britain’s flagship polar research vessel, RRS Sir David Attenborough, watched an estimated 18 million metric tonnes of ice crash into the ocean when a massive section of Greenland’s Sorgenfri glacier broke away in a single evening event.The…

20-year-old Kentucky tourist dies after falling 170 feet from Oregon waterfall while posing for photos/Image: Getty Images A 20-year-old tourist died after falling more than 170 feet from a waterfall in an Oregon state park while posing for photographs in an area closed to visitors, The New York Post reportedEmergency crews were called to Silver…

Wyoming tetons Representative image from Canva Deep in the rock record of Wyoming, a layer of fossil leaves tells a quiet but powerful story about what happens to forests when the planet warms rapidly. About 56 million years ago, during a spike in global temperatures known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a lush…

PC: Study: A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds Across northeastern Brazil, an extraordinary landscape hides a secret beneath its surface. Around 200 million earthen mounds stretch across roughly 230,000 square kilometres, an area about the size of Great Britain. Some of these structures are almost 4,000 years old, yet they are not termite…