Indonesia experiences massive forest fires as the dry season approaches. They are a major environmental challenge because ...

Tokyo is succeeding where the rest of the world has failed, reducing its reliance on Beijing for crucial rare earth ...

A new map of the cosmos, including more than 47 million galaxies and other cosmic objects, represents one of the most ...

The Ontong Java Plateau (OJP), located in the Pacific Ocean, formed around 110 to 120 million years ago through massive submarine volcanic eruptions. This event is considered the most extensive ...

Across Asia, new initiatives are showing how satellite Earth observation data and AI-powered technologies can turn fragmented ...

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For an application that's often considered an underdog in the navigation software wars, Magic Earth certainly gets a lot of updates. The most recent release includes a feature Google Maps users have ...

In January 2026, as the first of two major winter storms hit the eastern U.S., some social media users began sharing images that they said showed the Leviathan, a biblical sea monster, "waking up" ...

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President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland’s location between North America and Russia gives it ...