Click Here to Read: Planet Nine? Not quite, but some astronomers think they’ve spotted a new dwarf planet: In searching for the elusive Planet Nine, researchers instead turned up a different resident in our cosmic backyard by JBy Denise Chow on the NBC News website on June 4, 2025.
Dwarf planets 5. Image: JorisvS (talk). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: A mysterious, highly active undersea volcano near California could erupt later this year. What scientists expect By Rong-Gong Lin II in the Los Angeles Times on May 20, 2025.
Bathymetric of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, calling to attention seismic activity at Axial Seamount .Image: NOAA. Public Domainv via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Global Forest Loss Hit a Record Last Year as Fires Raged
Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found. Fires accounted for nearly half of the losses By Hiroko Tabuchi and Harry Stevens in the New York Times on May 22, 2025.
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Click Here to Read: This ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought. Now Earth’s biggest cities are at risk: The giant glacier has been losing ice rapidly for several decades by Dr Ella Gilbert on the BBC Science Focus website on June 6, 2024.
Close look at the Thwaites Ice Shelf edge as seen from the IceBridge DC-8 on Oct. 16, 2012. The blue areas of ice are denser, compressed ice. Image NASA / James Yungel. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
