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Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Wildfire isn't inherently bad. It can be really good. But the extreme way the Western U.S. often experiences fires today — infernos, blazes that can burn well over 200,000 acres in 24 hours, and flames surging through neighborhoods — has repeatedly destructive or dire consequences. This modern Western fire regime isn't simple. […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. Yes, the sun is a profoundly important factor in Earth's climate. It always will be. But scientists, like those at NASA, know the sun isn't causing the current, rapid rise in global temperatures. Here's why: 1. […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Doctors are getting questions about the possibility of short-lived, though sometimes uncomfortable, side effects after the second Covid shot. Mashable spoke with some of these doctors. They emphasize that the vaccines have continually proven safe, and any common side effects — like tiredness, a sore shoulder, fever, or aches — from the […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Click, click, click. On Wednesday, NASA released the first-ever recording of a laser firing on Mars. The recently landed Mars Perserance rover zapped a rock from 10 feet away. In the recording below, you can hear 30 zaps, which sound like clicks as the laser hits the rock. "These sounds are exactly […]

Why hello, Venus. NASA's Parker Solar Probe, a well-armored spacecraft that's observing the sun closer than any mission before, swung by Venus in July 2020 and snapped some opportunistic images. On Wednesday, the space agency released a particularly vivid image from this near pass. "#ParkerSolarProbe captured this stunning view of Venus during its close flyby of the planet in July 2020," NASA tweeted. There are some cool things to see […]

The video footage is violent and unsettling. On Sunday, a torrent of ice, water, mud, and debris surged through a steep river valley in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. At least 32 people are dead, with nearly 200 missing. The tragic event happened in a warming Himalayan region where glaciers are rapidly melting and retreating. Yet glacier experts say the flood likely wasn't triggered by the collapse of or […]

Where the polar bears roam, the northern lights glow. February and March are the best months to see the ghostly aurora borealis, and you can now often view it (at night) on explore.org's live Northern Lights cam. Explore.org is the same organization that livestreams the extraordinarily fat bears in Alaska. The Northern Lights cam is located in Churchill, Canada, a place that often teems with polar bears (though polar bear […]

On Earth, the amount of ice lost each year is equal to a monstrous, over six-mile-high ice cube looming over New York City. And this ice loss is accelerating. In research published Monday in the scientific journal The Cryosphere, earth scientists concluded the planet lost a prodigious 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017. This means ice mass is melting away, like a shrinking glacier. Since the 1990s, […]

The U.S. is no longer acting like an insolent child peeing in a swimming pool. On Nov. 4, 2020, the Trump administration quit the Paris Agreement, becoming the only nation to leave the world's most important effort to curb Earth's relentless warming. Even the hyper-isolated dictatorship of North Korea was still aboard. But before he was elected, newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden pledged to rejoin the treaty on "day one." He […]