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Kawah Ijen: The volcano in Indonesia that holds the world's largest acidic lake at its heart
Kawah Ijen is an active volcano on the island of Java with an extremely acidic crater lake and gas emissions that produce blue flames upon contact with oxygen in Earth's atmosphere.
The most important and shocking climate stories of 2024
Soaring carbon emissions, an unexpected new source of global warming, and collapsing ocean currents shocked scientists in 2024. Here are our picks for this year's top climate change stories.
The 10 biggest science experiments on Earth
From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet.
Drastic Antarctic sea ice loss could fuel extreme weather in years ahead
Massive reductions in Antarctic sea ice in recent years has been correlated with more stormy days in the Southern Ocean, and could have implications for vital ocean currents.
Strange phenomena create festive decorations on Iraq's 'Christmas tree lake'
Earth from space A 2018 astronaut photo shows a festive, fir-tree-shaped artificial reservoir in Iraq decorated with both natural and imagined ornaments.
There's a massive fault hidden under America's highest mountain — and we finally know how it formed
Today, the Denali Fault rips apart some of the North American plate, but it was once a place where tectonic plates came together.
Watch Kilauea volcano erupt LIVE
Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is erupting with fountains of lava. Check out a USGS livestream from within the Halemaʻumaʻu crater.
Antarctica quiz: Test your knowledge on Earth's frozen continent
Quiz How much do you know about Antarctica? Take our science quiz to see if you'll freeze up or be as cool as a cucumber.
'Rising temperatures melted corpses out of the Antarctic permafrost': The rise of one of Earth's most iconic trees in an uncertain world
As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved in half as North America inched westward.
