The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year and is celebrated around the world. Summer solstice marks the start of astronomical summer and is celebrated around the world. (Image credit: Anton Petrus via Getty Images) When is the summer solstice? The summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere occurs on June 20, 2025, at 10:42 p.m. EDT (0242 GMT on June 21), a
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Plant life plays a crucial role in fighting climate change by absorbing and transforming greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. For instance, over its lifetime, a tree can absorb more than a ton of carbon from the air and store it in wood and roots. The presence of mosses blanketing the soil is actually a positive indication rather than a negative one. Mosses play a crucial role in establishing
Watch: Atlantic Ocean's largest recorded great white male shark gets tagged for tracking Video from OCEARCH shows Contender, a massive adult great white shark, being tagged off the Florida/Georgia coast in January 2025. Contender is the largest recorded great white male shark in the Atlantic. CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. – The biggest adult, male great white shark to ever be recorded in the Atlanti
The CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii has passed 430 parts per million Geophysicist Ralph Keeling in his lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, where carbon dioxide levels are tested. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego) When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's
Could seeing the luminescent twinkle of fireflies on summer evenings soon be a thing of the past? Recent claims circulating on social media say that we may be the last generation to have grown up with fireflies. But how true is that? A 2024 study in Science of The Total Environment compiled 24,000 North American surveys from Firefly Watch, a citizen scienc
Not all Full Moons are created the same. Follow the familiar Moon long enough, and you'll notice something strange, as it seems to wander across the sky from north to south, from one cycle to the next. Welcome to the fantastic precession of our natural satellite, the Moon. Last December, we saw the 'Long Night's Full Moon,' as the Full Moon nearest to the solstice rode the highest in
Catch the full moon rise over the southeastern horizon on June 10. The full "Strawberry Moon" rises in 2023 behind the Empire State Building in New York. (Image credit: Anadolu via Getty Images) Look up — or rather, down — tonight to spot the lowest full moon in nearly two decades. This month's full moon will ride low on the southern horizon thanks to an orbital phenom
The Strawberry Moon is the name given to the full Moon in June, the sixth full Moon of the year, rising on 11 June 2025 at 22:46 BST. What's more, the Strawberry Moon in 2025 will be joined in the night sky by bright red star Antares, which is known as the 'rival of Mars'. And this is the lowest full Moon of the year, as well as one of the farthest from the Sun. Strawberry Moon rising over
Don't miss the 2025 full "Strawberry Moon" when it rises above the southeastern horizon on June 10. A full "Strawberry Moon" reveals its brilliant colors in the night sky (Image credit: Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) This month's full "Strawberry Moon" graces the night sky on June 11, putting on a spectacular show as the fully-lit disk of Earth's n
Animals living in caves have attracted the interest of naturalists and biologists since the beginning of modern science (Poulson & White, 1969; Vandel, 1964). Caves and other subterranean habitats are often perceived as extreme environments that deserve investigation because their simplified settings can help to understand evolutionary and ecological processes (Howarth, 1993; Mammola, 2019