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Are "Natural Disasters" On The Rise? | IFLScience The Big QuestionsA picture of a mobile phone displaying The Big Questions logo overlaid on a picture of a flooded neigbourhood.

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Are "Natural Disasters" On The Rise? | IFLScience The Big QuestionsA picture of a mobile phone displaying The Big Questions logo overlaid on a picture of a flooded neigbourhood.
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Are "Natural Disasters" On The Rise? | IFLScience The Big Questions

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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?zombie hand emerging from a rocky black and blue earth with two circles zooming out from it showing petri dishes of micro organisms. The background shows illustrations of microbes in white on a pale grey and there's a green logo in the top right that reads IFLScience Viral Summer.

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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?zombie hand emerging from a rocky black and blue earth with two circles zooming out from it showing petri dishes of micro organisms. The background shows illustrations of microbes in white on a pale grey and there's a green logo in the top right that reads IFLScience Viral Summer.
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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?

clock-iconJuly 21, 2026
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After More Than 60 Years Presumed Dead, A Coral Reef Is Alive and Thriving Off The Coast Of BeninAn underwater photograph of a coral reef showing colorful fan like corals and the sandy bottom of the sea floor.

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After More Than 60 Years Presumed Dead, A Coral Reef Is Alive and Thriving Off The Coast Of BeninAn underwater photograph of a coral reef showing colorful fan like corals and the sandy bottom of the sea floor.
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After More Than 60 Years Presumed Dead, A Coral Reef Is Alive and Thriving Off The Coast Of Benin

clock-iconJuly 20, 2026

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Lake Mead Nears All-Time Low. California Gives Up Billions Of Gallons Of Water To Help It SurviveLake Mead water levels as seen from Hoover Dam, showing the distinct white "bathtub ring" where water levels have dropped.

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Lake Mead Nears All-Time Low. California Gives Up Billions Of Gallons Of Water To Help It SurviveLake Mead water levels as seen from Hoover Dam, showing the distinct white "bathtub ring" where water levels have dropped.
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Lake Mead Nears All-Time Low. California Gives Up Billions Of Gallons Of Water To Help It Survive

clock-iconJuly 18, 2026
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In 1961, Scientists Began Exploring Uncharted Caves In Borneo. The "Howling" Mountain Revealed A Hidden World Beneath The Rainforestlight floods through the large mouth of deer cave, with a cavernously high ceiling that makes a human look like an ant

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In 1961, Scientists Began Exploring Uncharted Caves In Borneo. The "Howling" Mountain Revealed A Hidden World Beneath The Rainforestlight floods through the large mouth of deer cave, with a cavernously high ceiling that makes a human look like an ant
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In 1961, Scientists Began Exploring Uncharted Caves In Borneo. The "Howling" Mountain Revealed A Hidden World Beneath The Rainforest

clock-iconJuly 17, 2026

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Uranium-Chomping Bacteria Found In Bowels Of Mine That Once Supplied Soviet Nuclear WeaponsEntrance to the Pöhla uranium mine, a major extraction site in Saxony, Germany, operated by the Wismut company from 1967 to 1990

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Uranium-Chomping Bacteria Found In Bowels Of Mine That Once Supplied Soviet Nuclear WeaponsEntrance to the Pöhla uranium mine, a major extraction site in Saxony, Germany, operated by the Wismut company from 1967 to 1990
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Uranium-Chomping Bacteria Found In Bowels Of Mine That Once Supplied Soviet Nuclear Weapons

clock-iconJuly 16, 2026

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Microplastics Found In 92% Of Hydrothermal Vent Animals 2 Kilometers Deep On The Ocean FloorA photograph taken deep underwater in the Mariana Trench showing 'giant tube worms' - a pink wriggly marine invertebrate - clinging to a hydrothermal vent giving off bubbles.

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Microplastics Found In 92% Of Hydrothermal Vent Animals 2 Kilometers Deep On The Ocean FloorA photograph taken deep underwater in the Mariana Trench showing 'giant tube worms' - a pink wriggly marine invertebrate - clinging to a hydrothermal vent giving off bubbles.
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Microplastics Found In 92% Of Hydrothermal Vent Animals 2 Kilometers Deep On The Ocean Floor

clock-iconJuly 15, 2026

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More And More Of The Sahara Is Ending Up In EuropeThe skies above the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, glows a vibrant orange due to Saharan dust in the atmosphere.

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More And More Of The Sahara Is Ending Up In EuropeThe skies above the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, glows a vibrant orange due to Saharan dust in the atmosphere.
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More And More Of The Sahara Is Ending Up In Europe

clock-iconJuly 15, 2026

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What Would Happen If We Just Left Forests Alone? Just Ask Białowieża, Europe’s Best Preserved Primeval ForestNatural coniferous stand of Bialowieza Forest Landscape Reserve in morning with sunlight entering

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What Would Happen If We Just Left Forests Alone? Just Ask Białowieża, Europe’s Best Preserved Primeval ForestNatural coniferous stand of Bialowieza Forest Landscape Reserve in morning with sunlight entering
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What Would Happen If We Just Left Forests Alone? Just Ask Białowieża, Europe’s Best Preserved Primeval Forest

clock-iconJuly 15, 2026
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The World’s Largest Hybrid Solar Farm That Stores Energy After Sunset In Molten Salt Joins China's Great Solar WallAerial view of a solar farm in the deserts of Dunhuang, Northwestern China.

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The World’s Largest Hybrid Solar Farm That Stores Energy After Sunset In Molten Salt Joins China's Great Solar WallAerial view of a solar farm in the deserts of Dunhuang, Northwestern China.
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The World’s Largest Hybrid Solar Farm That Stores Energy After Sunset In Molten Salt Joins China's Great Solar Wall

clock-iconJuly 15, 2026

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Hector The Convector Is One Of The World's Strangest Natural PhenomenonHector, as seen from Gunn Point in Northern Territory, Australia

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Hector The Convector Is One Of The World's Strangest Natural PhenomenonHector, as seen from Gunn Point in Northern Territory, Australia
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Hector The Convector Is One Of The World's Strangest Natural Phenomenon

clock-iconJuly 8, 2026

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Ocean Acidification Could Shrink Squids’ Brains By Almost 50 PercentSquid like this bigfin reef squid, are famously smart, but that might not still be true in a high-carbon dioxide future

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Ocean Acidification Could Shrink Squids’ Brains By Almost 50 PercentSquid like this bigfin reef squid, are famously smart, but that might not still be true in a high-carbon dioxide future
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Ocean Acidification Could Shrink Squids’ Brains By Almost 50 Percent

clock-iconJuly 8, 2026

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The Great Green Wall Of Africa Aims To Restore 100 Million Hectares, But Some Fear It Will Remain A MirageSahel acacia tree with the sun setting behind it

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The Great Green Wall Of Africa Aims To Restore 100 Million Hectares, But Some Fear It Will Remain A MirageSahel acacia tree with the sun setting behind it
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The Great Green Wall Of Africa Aims To Restore 100 Million Hectares, But Some Fear It Will Remain A Mirage

clock-iconJuly 8, 2026
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Humankind's Depletion Of The Ozone Layer Started In The 1950s, Way Earlier Than ThoughtA view of the South Pole from space: Galileo's cameras distinguished between ice and high stratospheric clouds, allowing scientists to study the correlation between these clouds and growth of the ozone hole.

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Humankind's Depletion Of The Ozone Layer Started In The 1950s, Way Earlier Than ThoughtA view of the South Pole from space: Galileo's cameras distinguished between ice and high stratospheric clouds, allowing scientists to study the correlation between these clouds and growth of the ozone hole.
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Humankind's Depletion Of The Ozone Layer Started In The 1950s, Way Earlier Than Thought

clock-iconJune 30, 2026

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As Of June 29, Switzerland's Glaciers Will Lose More Ice Than They Gained Last Winter — And That's A Troubling SignThe Claridenfirn glacier in Switzerland was complete free of snow in September 2025.

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As Of June 29, Switzerland's Glaciers Will Lose More Ice Than They Gained Last Winter — And That's A Troubling SignThe Claridenfirn glacier in Switzerland was complete free of snow in September 2025.
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As Of June 29, Switzerland's Glaciers Will Lose More Ice Than They Gained Last Winter — And That's A Troubling Sign

clock-iconJune 29, 2026