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Blast From the Past: Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan
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Published July 3, 2025
The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China.
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Blast From the Past: Vredefort Crater
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Published July 2, 2025
The world’s oldest and largest known impact structure shows some of the most extreme deformation conditions known on Earth.
Blast From the Past: A Modern Lake in an Ancient Crater
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Published July 1, 2025
Famously visible from space, ring-shaped Manicouagan Lake was filled at the dawn of the Space Age when Canada dammed a river to flood a Triassic-aged impact crater.
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A Cosmic Explosion Over Siberia
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Published June 30, 2025
On June 30, 1908, an incoming fireball exploded kilometers above Earth’s surface, scorching and toppling large numbers of trees.
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Western Mountain Snow Melts Fast and Early
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Published June 28, 2025
A warm and dry spring in the Pacific Northwest quickly depleted the seasonal snowpack, raising concern over summer water supplies and wildland fire risk.
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A Dusty Vestige of the Old West
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Published June 29, 2025
Owens Lake, an arid playa tucked between the Inyo Mountains and the Sierra Nevada in California, is the site of dust mitigation efforts.
Smoke Streams Over the Aegean Sea
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Published June 27, 2025
Fierce winds carried plumes from fires burning on the Greek island of Chíos southwest over the bright sea surface.
Sizzling Start to Summer
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Published June 25, 2025
The eastern United States sweltered under high heat and humidity in late June 2025, breaking temperature records across the Midwest and Northeast.
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A Booming Bloom Returns to the Gulf of Maine
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A type of phytoplankton called coccolithophores, less common in waters off New England since around 2010, made an impressive appearance in summer 2025.