Gerard Mercator's 16th-century attempt at mapping the Arctic includes such guesses as a giant whirlpool and polar pygmies.

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Submitted on March 6th 2017 by gladsdotter with 3 comments

Malta's famous Azure Window rock arch has collapsed into the sea after heavy storms. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the news was "heartbreaking".A study in 2013 said that while erosion was inevitable, the structure was not in imminent danger of collapsing, the Times of Malta reports.

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Slow motion and timelapse can reveal the wonders of the natural world.

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NASA Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, says launching a magnetic shield could help warm Mars and possibly allow it to become habitable.

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Submitted on March 4th 2017 by jackthetripper

The film "Aliens of the Lembeh Strait" by Sascha Janson won Gold in the video category of the 2017 Our World Underwater International Imaging Competition.

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Submitted on March 3rd 2017 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

A rhino has been shot dead by poachers at a zoo in France in what is believed to be the first such incident in Europe.Keepers found Vince, a four-year-old white rhino, in his enclosure at Thoiry Zoo on Tuesday morning. One of his horns had been hacked off with a chainsaw, police said. The African rhino's horn commands high prices on the black market, with about 100 killed every month in the wild. However, this is thought to be the first time poachers have targeted a rhino living in a European zoo.

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Submitted on March 7th 2017 by baron778 with 2 comments

Starting his project as a nine-year-old, Felix Finkbeiner aims to restore the world’s forests. In many ways, Finkbeiner has done more than any other activist to recruit youth to the climate change movement. Plant-for-the-Planet now has an army of 55,000 “climate justice ambassadors,” who have trained in one-day workshops to become climate activists in their home communities. Most of them are between the ages of 9 and 12.

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Submitted on March 7th 2017 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

In a groundbreaking study researchers from the University of Sheffield have now calculated the environmental impact of a loaf of bread and which part of its production contributes the most greenhouse gas. The group of interdisciplinary researchers from the University’s Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, analysed the complete process from growing and harvesting the wheat; milling the grain; producing the flour; baking the bread and the production of the final product, ready to be sold by retailers.

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Submitted on March 4th 2017 by Petrox

Near the Yana river basin, in a vast area of permafrost, there is a dramatic tadpole-shaped hole in the ground: the Batagaika The crater is also known as a "megaslump" and it is the largest of its kind: almost 0.6 miles (1km) long and 282ft (86m) deep. But these figures will soon change, because it is growing quickly. Locals in the area avoid it, saying it is a "doorway to the underworld". But for scientists, the site is of great interest.

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Submitted on March 2nd 2017 by sauce

It was the hottest temperature recorded on the continent since 1974. One of the coldest places in the world is warming up fast. Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced a new record high temperature of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit for the continent of Antarctica. The temperature was initially recorded on March 24, 2015 at the Argentine research base Esperanza, nestled on the northernmost tip of the Antarctic Peninsula just underneath South America.

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Submitted on March 4th 2017 by wildcard

Humans emit more than 250 billion tonnes of chemical substances a year, in a toxic avalanche that is harming people and life everywhere on the planet.

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A non-native snake species that has already wiped out most of Guam's tree-dwelling birds is also decimating the Pacific island's forests, researchers said Wednesday.

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Submitted on March 8th 2017 by lostwonder

The Arctic Ocean could become free of sea ice for the first time in 100,000 years even if action is taken to keep global warming to within two degrees Celsius, scientists have warned. The region has experienced much sharper rises in temperature in recent decades that the rest of the world with temperatures in winter in Spitsbergen an astonishing 8 to 11C higher than the average between 1961 and 1990.

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Submitted on March 7th 2017 by Nelson

Report warns of catastrophic consequences and blames manufacturers for ‘systematic denial of harms’ and ‘unethical marketing tactics’

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Submitted on March 7th 2017 by Maternitus

To feed an enormous building boom, India’s relentless sand miners have devastated the waterways that make life there possible.

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Submitted on March 5th 2017 by gladsdotter

Only China dumps more plastic in the ocean than Indonesia. But by 2025, the world’s largest archipelago aims to reduce marine waste by 70%

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Submitted on March 3rd 2017 by wetwilly87 with 1 comments

Discovered in 1999 in Germany, the 3,600-year-old Nebra Sky Disk is recognized as the oldest known depiction of cosmic phenomena.

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Submitted on March 3rd 2017 by CatLady

The Environmental Protection Agency may be a popular political punching bag, but it’s crucial to protecting the health of people and birds. Here’s how.

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Submitted on March 5th 2017 by estherschindler

One of Kenya's last great tusker elephants was reportedly shot and killed by poachers. During a routine flyover on January 4 by the conservation group Tsavo Trust in southern Kenya, the body of a famous, roughly 50-year-old African elephant known as Satao II was discovered, though news of his death was only announced Monday. While the cause of death has not been confirmed, conservationists believe he was killed by a poisoned arrow while feeding in the eastern region of the park. The area is known as a "poaching hot spot."

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Submitted on March 8th 2017 by mariogi

A bitter battle is raging within the mole-catching community over the kindest way to carry out their deadly work.

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