Earth Stories for 2018

Scientists Drill Into 3,500 Feet of Ice To Reach a Mysterious Antarctic Lake 88
World's Rarest Bird, Madagascar Pochard, Gets New Home 29
Facing Soil Crisis, US Farmers Look Beyond Corn and Soybeans 143
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis 271
Japan Announces Withdrawal From International Whaling Commission, To Resume Commercial Whaling 274
50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Changed Humanity's Vision of Earth Forever 92
Climate Change Drives Fish Into New Waters, Remaking an Industry 87
Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working 199
2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled 162
The Most-Distant Solar System Object Discovered 79
Cement is the Source of About 8% of the World's Carbon Dioxide Emissions 185
Norway is Entering a New Era of Climate-Conscious Architecture 119
California Requires New City Buses To Be Electric by 2029 142
A Bright Green 'Christmas Comet' Will Fly the Closest To Earth In Centuries 111
Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse 194
We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need, an Analysis Finds 367
Japan Plans For 100ft Tsunami 131
The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules 304
Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says 207
Scientists Identify Vast Underground Ecosystem Containing Billions of Micro-organisms 87
Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 399
Scientists Say Most Diverse Coral Site Ever Seen on Great Barrier Reef Discovered 38
Were Those Strange Waves Rippling Across Earth Caused By Magma Shfits? 55
'Great Dying': Rapid Warming Caused Largest Extinction Event Ever, Report Says 210
Luxembourg To Become First Country To Make All Public Transport Free 215
Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt 282
Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude 100
Shocking Maps Show How Humans Have Reshaped Earth Since 1992 88
EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 205
CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years 317
Scientists Discover Rare Giant Viruses Lurking In Harvard Forest Soil 94
Many of the Climate Impacts Predicted in the Last National Climate Assessment, in 2014, Are No Longer Theoretical 346
Amazon Rainforest Deforestation 'Worst in 10 Years', Says Brazil 90
Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish 103
Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars 204
A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland's Ice Sheet 172
Climate Change is Making Hurricanes Even More Destructive, Research Finds 212
Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming 280
The World is Running Out of Sand, and People Are Dying as a Result 180
A New Method To Produce Steel Could Cut 5 Percent of CO2 Emissions 121
United Nations Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Repairing 142
SpaceX's Helipad-Equipped Boat Will Bring Astronauts Safely Home 29
Researchers Explore New Batteries To Power Electric Planes 141
Billionaires Are Chasing The Holy Grail of Energy: Fusion 185
Have We Really Wiped Out 60 Percent of Animals? 86
Researchers Launch Plan To Sequence 66,000 Species In the UK 13
Scientists Warn That World's Wilderness Areas Are Disappearing 72
Startling New Research Finds Large Buildup of Heat in the Oceans, Suggesting a Faster Rate of Global Warming [Update] 407
Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970 303
Air Pollution Is the 'New Tobacco,' Warns WHO 161
Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033 287
Mysterious White Cloud Hangs Over Martian Volcano 59
Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air 222
US Air Pollution Deaths Nearly Halved Between 1990 and 2010 134
Climate Modeller Wins $10,000 Wager Against Solar Physicists, Fails To Collect 195
Spacecraft BepiColombo Poised For Mission To Mercury 29
Earth's Inner Core Is Solid, But Squishier Than Previously Thought 66
Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt 190
Earth on Pace For Fourth-Warmest Year on Record, NOAA and NASA Say 310
Remote South Atlantic Islands Are Flooded With Plastic 83
One of the World's Largest Organisms is Shrinking 108
Scientists Discover Weird Sounds In Antarctic Ice Shelf 40
NASA Astronaut Details Fall To Earth After Failed Soyuz Launch 80
'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss 336
UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy 240
Humans Are Now Monitoring Animals With Facial Recognition Technology 29
Climate Change Report Actually Understates Threats 396
Bees Stop Flying During Total Solar Eclipses 86
Newly Discovered Volcanic 'Lost World' Is a Haven For Marine Life 47
The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks 397
IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels 478
Company That Sucks CO2 From Air Announces a New Methane-Producing Plant 142
New Study Finds Incredibly High Carbon Pollution Costs -- Especially For the US and India 190
Half the World Is Now Middle Class Or Wealthier, Says Brookings Institution 279
Saudi Arabia Puts World's Biggest Solar Power Project On Hold 120
Trump Administration Sees a 7-Degree Rise in Global Temperatures By 2100 436
Satellite Company Partners With Jeff Bezos' AWS To Bring Internet To 'Whole Planet' 60
Spheres Can Make Concrete Leaner, Greener 98
Humans Are Causing the Earth To Wobble More Than It Should, NASA Finds 205
Massive Undersea Walls Could Stop Glaciers From Melting, Scientists Say 142
Divers Are Attempting To Regrow Great Barrier Reef With Electricity 23
Giant Spiderweb Cloaks Land in Aitoliko, Greece 42
Microplastics Can Spread Via Flying Insects, Research Shows 38
Why Edinburgh's Clock is Almost Never on Time 96
How Tech Companies Responded To Hurricane Florence 79
To Fight Climate Change, California Says 'We're Launching Our Own Damn Satellite' 308
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Showing 'Signs of Recovery' 50
California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral 449
Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean 227
An Autonomous Sailboat Successfully Crosses Atlantic Ocean 59
Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai 412
World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England 175
Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free 71
New Software Can Predict Landslides Weeks Before They Happen 35
Governments 'Not on Track' To Cap Temperatures at Below 2 Degrees: UN 420
Google Funds A Starfish-Killing Robot To Save Australia's Great Barrier Reef 122
Lego Wants To Completely Remake Its Toy Bricks Using Plant-Based Or Recycled Materials 120
EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time 260
Google, Harvard Use AI To Predict Earthquake Aftershocks 16
Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision 161
Climate Change Could Lead To Nutrient Deficiency For Hundreds of Millions 249
Facebook Says It Aims To Power Itself With 100% Renewable Energy by 2020 110
California Moves To Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045 282
Scientists Discover Hidden Deep-Sea Coral Reef Off South Carolina Coast 49
Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs 364
New Research Suggests Evolution Might Favor 'Survival of the Laziest' 153
Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere 210
Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due To Arctic Warming 387
Construction Begins On $1 Billion Telescope That Will Take Pictures 10 Times Sharper Than Hubble's 97
World Is Finally Waking Up To Climate Change, Says 'Hothouse Earth' Author 354
Climate Change Has Doubled the Frequency of Ocean Heatwaves 260
Scientists Find Way To Make Mineral Which Can Remove CO2 From Atmosphere 307
AI Identifies Heat-Resistant Coral Reefs In Indonesia 86
Watch Fish Swim By Petabytes of Data At Microsoft's Underwater Data Center 97
Theme Park Deploys Trained Crows To Collect Litter 181
Scientists Claim To Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle 235
Planet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' State 1159
Air Pollution Linked To Changes In Heart Structure, Study Shows 29
Google Maps Now Zooms Out To a Globe Instead of a Flat Earth 123
Rare Blue Diamonds Lurk Deep In Earth's Core 77
A Material Found To Carry Current In a Way Never Before Observed 72
Earth Overshoot Day Came Early This Year. That's a Bad Thing. 341
The World's Largest Solar Farm Rises in the Remote Egyptian Desert 153
118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe 503
Can Hoover Dam Become a Giant $3B Battery? 219
New Richter-Like Scale Is Here To Measure Alien Signals 29
Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice 125
This Week's Total Lunar Eclipse Is the Longest of the Century 52
Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate 87
There is No Guarantee That the Products You Recycle Are Actually Recycled, the UK Watchdog Warns 171
The Hidden Environmental Cost of Amazon Prime's Free, Fast Shipping 199
Nanoengineer Finds New Way To Recycle Lithium-Ion Batteries 72
Russian Shipwreck Allegedly Carrying $130 Billion In Gold Has Been Rediscovered 256
Is the Earth's Mantle Full of Diamonds? 109
Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes 177
Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has 574
Apple Announces $300 Million China Clean Energy Fund 52
Ireland Becomes World's First Country To Divest From Fossil Fuels 194
Scientists Discover the World's Oldest Colors 79
Nitrogen Is In Liquid Metal Form Inside Earth's Core 70
Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? 412
All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World 367
E-Waste Mining Could Be Big Business 112
Hawaii Bans Sunscreens That Hurt Coral Reefs 65
TV Coverage of Cycling Races Can Help Document the Effects of Climate Change 171
Microsoft Releases 125 Million Building Footprints In the US To the OpenStreetMap Community 58
We Still Have No Idea How To Eliminate More Than a Quarter of Energy Emissions 224
America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge 353
Splitting Water For Fuel While Removing CO2 From the Air 247
Ocean Spray On Saturn Moon Contains Crucial Constituents For Life 50
Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve 251
We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests 519
Mumbai Bans Plastic Bags, Bottles, and Single-Use Plastic Containers 174
Judge Rules Big Oil Can't Be Sued For Climate Change Costs 418
Google Earth's New Tool Lets You Measure Distance Between Anything On Earth 57
India Eyeing a New Monster 100GW Solar-Capacity Goal 155
Researchers Fish Yellowcake Uranium From the Sea With a Piece of Yarn 126
Why Antarctica Is Getting Taller 62
Mature Fish Are Found In Deeper Water Because of Humans 77
World Trending To Hit 50% Renewables, 11% Coal By 2050: Report 202
China Won't Solve the World's Plastics Problem Any More 219
Dutch Town Uses High-Tech Streetlights To Keep Their Bats Happy 80
Fake Earthquake Detected In Mexico City After Player's Goal In World Cup Match 213
Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags 203
NASA Makes Two Decades of Satellite Images of Earth Available To the Public 43
The Icelandic Families Tracking Climate Change With Measuring Tape 88
Some Recycling Is Now Being Re-Routed To Landfills 166
Can Washington State Finally Put a Price On Carbon? 147
Sucking CO2 From Air Is Cheaper Than Scientists Thought 383
An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long 113
The World Set a New Record For Renewable Power in 2017, But Emissions Are Still Rising 306
Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 131
'Carbon Bubble' Could Spark Global Financial Crisis, Study Warns 283
Scientists Race To Find Who is Pumping a Dangerous Gas Into the Atmosphere 355
Great Barrier Reef Has Died Five Times In Last 30,000 Years, Study Says 97
Thailand is New Dumping Ground For World's High-Tech Trash, Police Say 60
Coastal Megacity Karachi Is Running Out of Water 286
People Living in the Hottest Places on the Planet Are the Least Likely To Have Air Conditioners 235
Are Google's Cat-Loving Employees Killing Burrowing Owls? 181
AI-Enhanced Weed-Killing Robots Frighten Pesticide Industry 176
Birds Had To Relearn Flight After Meteor Wiped Out Dinosaurs, Fossil Records Suggest 60
As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 275
Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion 219
Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France 250
Asteroid From Another Star System Found Orbiting Wrong Way Near Jupiter 84
German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive 309
Human Race Just 0.01% of All Life But Has Destroyed 83% of Wild Mammals, Study Finds 192
Estonia To Become the World's First Free Public Transport Nation 143
Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant 211
Floating Pacific Island Is In the Works With Its Own Government, Cryptocurrency 168
Utilities, Tesla Appeal Federal Rollback of Auto Emissions Standards 118
US Government Wants To Start Charging For Landsat, the Best Free Satellite Data On Earth 239
Kilauea Volcano Erupts On Hawaii's Big Island 56
NASA Says Humans Are Causing Massive Changes In Location of Water Around the World 99
A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the Oceans 76
Large Island Declared Rat-Free in Biggest Removal Success 134
Orbits of Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate, Says Study 208
Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years 433
Can We Live Without Concrete? 407
Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Prompting Evacuation Orders 69
Graphene Makes Concrete Twice As Strong While Reducing Carbon Emissions 90
Hawaii To Ban Certain Sunscreens To Protect Coral Reefs 112
The Longest Straight Path You Could Travel On Water Without Hitting Land 141
Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Power Plant That's Headed To the Arctic 163
Pristine Lakes Are Filled With Toxins 100
Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off 104
Can We Fight Climate Change With Carbon-Absorbing Rocks? 167
EU Votes To Ban Bee-Harming Pesticides 130
Kazakhstan Is Changing Its Alphabet From Cyrillic To Latin-Based Style Favored By the West 288
Cow Could Soon Be Largest Land Mammal Left Due To Human Activity, Says Study 245
Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? 457
Lyft Announces It Will Make All Rides Carbon Neutral 37
'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted To Diving 111
North Korean Leader Says He Will Suspend Arms Tests, Shut Nuclear Test Site 249
Since 2016, Half of All Coral In the Great Barrier Reef Has Died 223
Apple Has a New iPhone Recycling Robot Named 'Daisy' 39
Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars 136
SpaceX Launches NASA's Planet-Hunting Satellite, Successfully Lands Its Falcon 9 Rocket 37
More Than 95% of World's Population Breathing Unhealthy Air, Says New Report 93
Diamonds in Sudan Meteorite 'Are Remnants of Lost Planet' 43
Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles 219
Carbon Dioxide From Ships at Sea To Be Regulated For First Time 136
Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? 255
Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Warm Is Weakening Because of Climate Change 193
XPRIZE Projects Aim To Convert CO2 Emissions, But Skepticism Remains 83
Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements 162
All Apple Operations Now Run Off 100 Percent Renewable Energy 116
One-Degree Rise In Temperature Causes Ripple Effect In World's Largest High Arctic Lake 303
New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit 167
Apple Tells the EPA Why Cutting the Clean Power Plan Is a Bad Move 131
Scientists Harvest First Vegetables in Antarctic Greenhouse 83
One of Estonia's First 'e-Residents' Explains What It Means To Have Digital Citizenship 76
Facebook CEO Says Not Planning To Extend European Privacy Law Globally 84
Large Crack in East African Rift is Evidence of Continent Splitting in Two 81
Should We Revive Extinct Species? 203
An Up-Close Look At the Parker Solar Probe -- the Spacecraft That Will Skim the Sun's Surface 121
FCC Authorizes SpaceX's Ambitious Satellite Internet Plans 102
China, in Search of Water, is Building a Rain-Making Network Three Times the Size of Spain 111
Wind and Solar Can Power Most of the United States, Says Study 417
Few Countries Will Benefit From the AI Revolution 124
More Than 75 Percent of Earth's Land Areas Are 'Broken,' Major Report Finds 145
Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert 410
Ask Slashdot: Can FOSS Help In the Fight Against Climate Change? 154
World Cities Go Dark For 'Earth Hour' Climate Campaign 141
A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, Early Humans Likely Saw It 164
SpaceX Launch Last Year Punched Huge, Temporary Hole In the Ionosphere 76
Water Shortages Could Affect 5 Billion People By 2050, UNESCO Warns 106
Once Written Off for Dead, the Aral Sea Is Now Full of Life 50
Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? 295
Researchers Claim They Can Predict Where Lightning Is Likely To Strike 37

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