An ice shelf in East Antarctica the size of Rome collapsed on March 15, the culmination of decades of an increasing warming trend seen at both of the planet’s poles. The collapse, announced in a tweet posted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and NASA planetary scientist Catherine Walker, took scientists by surprise,read more
Russian forces have used hypersonic missiles to destroy ground targets in their invasion of Ukraine—the first time such weapons have been used in combat—and a quantity of radioactive material has disappeared from a monitoring lab near the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. On March 19 Russian defence ministry spokesman Majorread more
A massive impact crater the size of the city of Paris that was discovered in 2018 under Greenland’s Hiawatha Glacier has been found to be much older than originally anticipated—tens of millions of years older, in fact. Initially thought to only be between three million and 12,000 years old, new datingread more
A copy of the classified version of the Pentagon’s Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena has been obtained by The Black Vault’s John Greenwald, following months of pursuing a Mandatory Declassification Review. Although the report released to Greenwald is heavily redacted, the context offered by the previously-unreleased material that it contains offers muchread more