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Demystifying Oxygen Production: Oceans vs. Amazon Rainforest

The vibrant, lush greenery of the Amazon Rainforest and the vast expanse of the world’s oceans both play a fundamental role in the Earth’s oxygen cycle. However, the widely circulated claim that the Amazon Rainforest contributes 20% of the world’s oxygen is a stark misconception. In reality, the majority of Earth’s oxygen is produced by marine plants, primarily phytoplankton. This article

Antarctica’s Astonishing Rebound: Ice Sheet Grows for the First Time in Decades

article FILE - Giant tabular icebergs are surrounded by ice floe drift in Vincennes Bay on January 11, 2008 in the Australian Antarctic Territory. (Photo by Torsten Blackwood - Pool/Getty Images) A surprising shift is underway at the bottom of the world. After decades of contributing to rising sea levels, Antarctica’s massive ice sheet has started growing again — at least for now. A�

Plastic Pollution in The Ocean – 2025 Facts and Statistics

Ultimate Roundup of Marine Pollution Facts: The Causes and Impact on both Marine and Human Life. The ocean is one of the most unexplored parts of our planet, with a magnitude of undiscovered species and mysteries. It turns out from the studies conducted over the last few decades, this magnificent environment is under serious threat from human intervention, with plastics set to outnumber fish by 2

The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a new ocean is being born.

New satellite measurements are offering valuable tools to study the tectonic rift in one of the most geologically unique spots on the planet. A 35-mile-long rift opened up in the Ethiopian desert in 2005, the result of tectonic plates slowly spreading the continent apart.University of Rochester In one of the hottest places on Earth, along an arid stretch of East Afric

World’s Largest Iceberg Shown Breaking Off Antarctica Ice Shelf In Satellite Images

In a colossal event, an iceberg, A-76, half the size of Puerto Rico, has detached from Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf into the Weddell Sea. Captivating satellite images depict its immense size, surpassing the dimensions of Manhattan and earning the title of the world’s largest floating iceberg. A view of the newly calved iceberg named A-76 by scientists, the largest currently afloat in th

How climate change is making its mark on the world – pictures

NASA gallery reveals how global warming is taking its toll on the planet’s glaciers, lakes and forests The melting of the Muir Glacier in Alaska, 1891 and 2005 (Pic: G.D. Hazard in 1891 and by Bruce F. Molnia in 2005. Courtesy of the Glacier Photograph Collection. Boulder, Colorado, US and the National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology) Over the last century, climate

How to See Halos, Sun Dogs and Other Delights of the Daytime Sky

Ice crystals suspended in the air put on a gorgeous show if you know when and where to look A halo around the sun—like this one over Germany’s Ore Mountains—comes from light shining through airborne ice crystals. Night isn’t the only time to see gorgeous things in the sky. Some of the most awe-invoking heavenly phenomena can only happen during the day, when the sun is s

2025 Winter maximum sea ice extent in Arctic smallest on record

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its seasonal maximum extent on March 22, 2025, 10 days later than the 1981-2010 average. Despite the late peak, it was the lowest maximum extent of the 47-year satellite era, which began in 1979. Sea ice concentration across the Northern Hemisphere on March 22, 2025, ranged from 15 percent (medium

On the southern edge of the world, a waterfall runs red as blood

Antarctica’s Blood Red Waterfall Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Peter Rejcek, National Science Foundation One of the world's most extreme deserts might be the last place one would expect to find a waterfall, but in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley, a five-story fall pours slowly out of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. And it's not just the idea o

Newly discovered super-Earth orbits in and out of its star’s habitable zone. Could life survive its extreme climate?

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. (Image credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO) A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD 20794d, gets farther out from its star than Mars is from the sun and, on the other end of its orbit, as close as Venus. Each orbit the plan