Few things beat standing among the mountains, breathing in air that feels crisp and clean, surrounded by scenery that looks pulled straight out of a fantasy film. It is...
Category - Earth
MSN New, Earth
Every Ocean on Earth Suddenly Vanished, and Civilization Would Collapse in Ways You Wouldn’t Expect
Nicknamed the blue planet for obvious reasons, Earth owes that description to oceans that stretch across more than 70 percent of its surface, quietly regulating...
Mosquitoes are often treated as nothing more than irritating insects that leave behind itchy bites. Their importance, however, is much greater than their size suggests...
For more than a century, humanity has relied heavily on fossil fuels to power modern civilization. Oil, natural gas and coal have supplied most of the world’s...
Scientists have a threshold for planetary destruction. An object roughly 96 kilometers wide, striking Earth, would wipe out every living thing on the surface. Jupiter...
MSN New, Earth, Humanity
1.4 Billion Believers Against One White House, and History Says the Church Wins
On one side sits the most powerful political office on Earth. On the other stands a man who speaks for 1.4 billion people across 183 countries. Donald Trump called the...
Something is happening beneath Antarctica that most people never think about. Under a sheet of ice larger than Europe sits a hidden landscape of mountains, valleys, and...
Look up tonight and you would see 79 moons instead of one. Most would look like unusually bright stars, but four of them would hang there as full glowing disks. It would...
MSN New, Cosmos, Earth
Every Blazar We Can See Is Already Aimed at Earth, and Here Is How Long We’d Have
Here is the part that unsettles astronomers. Every blazar we can see is already pointing its jet directly at Earth. Not most of them. All of them. Any blazar aiming its...
