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Earth’s balance point is being pulled toward South America by 2.4 trillion metric tons of Amazon rain every April, and NASA has found the seasonal swing is smaller than ...

Earth’s balance point moves a few millimeters each season as snow and 2.4 trillion metric tons of Amazon rain shift, about ...
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A boy in New Jersey started collecting used batteries after seeing a battery fire at a waste facility on TV, and his nonprofit now says it has recycled 900,000, but even a ...

Used batteries: a New Jersey nonprofit started by a 10-year-old reports 900,000 recycled via school bins, and why even a dead ...
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Ethiopia planted eucalyptus to get firewood and timber, and in one watershed it spread from about 590 acres to nearly 2,000 while streams lost the baseflow that ke…

Eucalyptus plantations cover about 1.25 million acres of Ethiopia, and in one Blue Nile watershed they more than tripled in ...
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Three African wild dog brothers walked 2,564 miles across Zambia in search of mates, and no African mammal has ever been recorded on a longer journey

African wild dog brothers from Kafue walked 2,564 miles across Zambia, a path Montana State calls the longest ever recorded ...
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Goodbye to the idea that hornets only nest in trees: oriental hornets in Spain are turning up in shutter boxes and false ceilings, and most records sit within about 0.6 …

Oriental hornets are spreading around Seville: a study of 695 records in Spain found 75% near towns, and officials warn ...
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A northern gannet can hit the ocean at roughly 54 mph and keep hunting underwater, and CT scans now show the sturdy neck bones that help diving seabird…

Plunge-diving seabirds can hit the sea at up to 54 mph, and a UW study of 7 species finds stockier neck vertebrae with an ...
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Britain’s Christmas robin could be a rarer sight in gardens this winter, and the reason goes back to a record-breaking summer that made the worms they feed on much h…

UK robins bred through a record 61.7°F summer as England got 64% of its usual rain, and drought pushes the earthworms they ...
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Finland has granted the world’s first operating licence to permanently bury spent nuclear fuel, in copper canisters about 1,410 feet down in the bedrock of Olkiluoto i…

Finland will be the first country to bury its spent nuclear fuel for good, after the government granted Posiva on October 22 ...
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A fishing trip off Jordan aimed at catching swordfish pulled up a pelagic stingray never confirmed in the Red Sea before, and scientists identified it from an Instagra…

Pelagic stingray caught off Jordan on May 30, 2025, is the Red Sea's first confirmed record, a mature male about 18 inches ...
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The Mjønes shipwreck in northern Norway was built from local pine in the mid-1700s and repaired as late as the mid-1800s, giving this jekt cargo ship more than three ti…

Mjønes shipwreck: a jekt cargo ship built from Norwegian pine in the mid-1700s stayed in service over 100 years, triple the ...
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A ritual bath preserved 13.8 feet from floor to ceiling stands in a monumental purification complex at the foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, and archaeologists s…

Purification complex at the foot of Jerusalem's Temple Mount holds three ritual baths, one still 13.8 feet tall to its stone ...
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The BelAZ 75710 dump truck hauls 450 metric tons on eight tires, and the record mining giant still runs on diesel, with two 16-cylinder engines making power for its …

BelAZ 75710 hauls 450 metric tons per load on eight tires, yet two 16-cylinder diesel engines still make the power for its ...