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North Pole's largest-ever ozone hole finally closes
An unusually strong polar vortex kept an ozone hole open over the North Pole for nearly a month — now, it's finally shut again.
The World's Largest Corpse Flower Is Blooming Right Now (and It Stinks)
Conservationists in Indonesia discovered the largest-ever specimen of Rafflesia tuan-mudae, a parasitic plant known as the 'corpse flower'
10 Times Nature Was Totally Metal in 2019
From cannibal ants to reindeer 'cyclones' to solar tsunamis, 2019 was a metal year for nature. Here are our 10 favorite moments.
This Brainless 'Blob' Could Take Over the Paris Zoo, If You Give It Enough Oatmeal
The Paris Zoological Park is debuting a new exhibit on 'the blob' — a brainless, single-cell slime mold with incredible problem-solving potential.
SoCal Has An 8% Chance of Another Huge Quake This Week
Even so, the chance of big quakes near Ridgecrest, California, decreases with time.
The Science Behind Washington's Scary 'Flash Flood Emergency'
One critical factor turned the heavy rainfall in Virginia and Washington D.C. into a flash flood emergency.
The World's Plants Are Going Extinct About 500 Times Faster Than They Should, Study Finds
Three new plant species have disappeared from Earth every year since 1900, an alarming new analysis found.
Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims
Human society could collapse by 2050, a new climate policy paper claims.
