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A single aspen clone in Utah called Pando covers 106 acres, weighs about 6,000 tonnes, and shares one root system that makes it a single organism roughly 14,000 years old, quietly dying now from mule deer eating every young shoot before it can grow
7+ hour, 52+ min ago (922+ words) The oldest and heaviest organism on Earth is being methodically consumed by animals that see only individual trees, not the ancient clone that connects them all. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 The trees you can see…...
While the rest of the world braces for longer wildfire seasons, Africa's fires have been quietly retreating for 20 years — and the reason has almost nothing to do with climate policy
8+ hour, 40+ min ago (869+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 Africa’s fire season — the great annual burn that turns the continent’s savannas into the largest source of biomass smoke on Earth — is getting shorter. And researchers now think they can explain…...
A reef off Benin was written off as dead sixty years ago — the drone footage that finally went back down tells a very different story about what 1960s marine science missed
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (265+ words) Sixty years of abandonment masked a thriving ecosystem that modern technology finally revealed—and challenged what we thought we knew about deep-ocean life. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 21, 2026 A deep-water coral reef off the coast of…...
A University of California, Riverside study published in Nature Communications found that a weakening Atlantic Ocean current thousands of kilometres away will supercharge California's atmospheric rivers — intensifying the storms that already swing the state between billion-dollar floods and persistent drought
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1179+ words) Thousands of miles away, a faltering Atlantic current could turn California's storms into catastrophic deluges, trapping the state in an even more brutal cycle of flooding and drought. By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published July 20, 2026 A slowdown in a major…...
The UN’s new blue economy framework is not really about oceans, it is an attempt to force fisheries, offshore wind, tourism, and coastal finance into one planning room
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1129+ words) For the first time, governments will have to admit that their ocean policies are not separate—and that admission could reshape who gets to profit from the sea. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 20, 2026 The United Nations…...
Sunlight reaches only the top 200 metres of the sea before the water swallows it, which means the overwhelming majority of the living space on our planet exists in permanent, near-total darkness, cold and unvisited by the sun
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (581+ words) Picture the descent. In the first few metres the water is bright and warm, the color of a swimming pool. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 18, 2026 Picture the descent. In the first few metres the water is bright and…...
For 37 years researchers heated a patch of forest floor to see what climate change would do to the soil — and the carbon everyone assumed was locked away started leaking out on schedule
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (1179+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 18, 2026 Soil scientists have long treated the deep, stable pool of carbon locked in forest soils as a kind of climate savings account — chemically bound, microbially uninteresting, and safe for centuries. A 37-year…...
In 2011, Peruvian geologist Andrés Ruzo followed his grandfather's story into the Amazon and confirmed a 6.4-kilometre stretch of river that runs at 86 degrees Celsius with no volcano within 700 kilometres, hot enough to cook small animals that fall in.
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (497+ words) Deep in the central Peruvian Amazon, more than 700 kilometres from the nearest active volcano, a stretch of river runs at an average temperature of 86 degrees Celsius — hot enough to poach an egg, hot enough that a frog falling from an…...
The Mariana snailfish lives 8,000 metres down in water that would crush a submarine, and its skeleton is made mostly of cartilage flooded with a molecule called TMAO that keeps its proteins from folding under the weight of the ocean above it.
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (768+ words) At roughly 8,000 metres below the surface of the western Pacific, in the crushing dark of the Mariana Trench, a small pink fish paddles along the sediment with the untroubled ease of a goldfish in a bowl. By Science Blog Editorial…...
The 2,700 heatwave deaths in England this summer weren't really about the heat — they were about a housing stock built for a country that no longer exists
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (1004+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team · Editorial process Published July 17, 2026 The two heatwaves that seared England and Wales in May and June killed roughly 2,700 people, according to a rapid analysis released this month by climate scientists at Imperial College London and…...