Named after the polar star, the Polarstern set sail for the Arctic region on September 20, 2019.
The German icebreaker, a ship that is designed to literally break the ice, is going to freeze in place in the icy waters above Norway. This mission, known as Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of the Arctic Climate, or MOSAiC for short, will be the largest Arctic expedition ever.
On August 24th, Victor Vescovo and his team became the first people to reach the deepest point of all the oceans on Earth.
The voyage, named the “Five Deeps Expedition,” came to a close after Vescovo’s journey to the bottom of Molloy Trench in the Arctic Ocean.
Vescovo is a former American naval explorer and an undersea explorer. Vescovo believes that pushing ourselves to the limit is the way humans evolve. He has climbed the highest mountains on each of the continents as well as skied to the North and South poles.
What Are Trenches?
Over the past month, there have been shocking headlines about our world’s largest tropical rainforest -- the Amazon.
Since the beginning of 2019, and especially over the past few weeks, enormous swaths of land in the Amazon rainforest are burning in catastrophic forest fires. The last time fires of this magnitude were seen was back in 2010.
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), June 2019 was Earth’s warmest June on record.
Wildfires, producing plumes of smoke visible from space, are spreading in Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada as a result of lightning and high temperatures.
Temperatures in Anchorage, Alaska reached 90 degrees for the first time on record and a total of 2.06 million acres were burned. Winds carrying smoke have caused air quality to plummet in cities in Siberia.
Have you ever wondered what happens to plastic after you put it in the recycling bin?
The world produces nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year, with only 9% of the plastic produced from 1950-2015 having been recycled. So, what happens to all of this plastic waste?
The recent news of the death of the last male Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia brings with it great sorrow - it is not only the end of an animal but an alarm bell that the species is at risk of extinction.
According to Malaysian officials, the thirty-year-old Sumatran Rhino named Tam died on Monday at a reserve in the city of Sabah.
The cause of the death was presumed to be old age, but it was also reported that Tam suffered from kidney and liver problems prior to his demise.
You may have heard of global warming. Over the past few decades, our Earth’s average temperature has been rising dangerously fast. The air is becoming more and more polluted and scientists are trying to warn us of the dangerous effects.
Unfortunately, the rise of carbon dioxide emissions in the Earth’s atmosphere has not stopped.
On May 11, carbon dioxide levels reached the highest they have been in likely 3 million years. Researchers at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory measured the carbon dioxide in the air to be 415 parts per million.
Rivers have connected people, nurtured ancient civilizations, and inspired writers and conservationists.
However, a recent report paints a grim picture of the state of our world's rivers.
Using satellite images and other data, researchers discovered that only 37% of the rivers longer than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) are still free-flowing. A river is considered to be free-flowing if its flow and course are not affected by humans.
