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In 1969, researchers spotted a black and white sooty tern in Michigan. This hardy seabird, however, had little business visiting the Midwest. The saltwater species usually spends its life in the tropics, more than 1,000 […]

While Florence is, as of 12:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, now “just” a tropical storm, it has still ripped the Carolina coast with heavy winds and record-breaking rainfall, causing widespread damage for humans and wildlife […]

This weekend, NASA is launching a new high-tech satellite to monitor the planet’s glacier and sea ice levels — with space lasers, naturally. ICESat-2 will be a huge boon for climatologists, and it’s also a […]

The Denver Zoo welcomed a new member to its family on August 8: an aye-aye lemur! She is super cute, and reminds us why we should take care of the planet. Aye-ayes, along with other […]

Although SpaceX has a number of successful launches to its name, it’s still yet to reach that ultimate goal of sending a human to space. As per a tweet on Thursday, the company has signed […]

Hurricane Florence is slowly but surely moving toward landfall along the East Coast. While its winds have decreased, making the storm a Category 2, it’s still an incredibly powerful and dangerous storm with extreme rains […]

Disclosure Every product here is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our work. The world’s oldest drawing by a human kinda looks […]

The nation’s eyes are on Hurricane Florence, which overcame some big odds to target the East Coast this week. Regardless of where the storm ultimately lands in the Carolinas, the Southeastern U.S. is due for […]

As millions of people in the Carolinas and Virginia prepare for what could be historic damage from Hurricane Florence, people in space are keeping an eye on it from above. A new high-definition video and […]

Surging hurricane waters can throw around cars, boats, and houses like toys.  Six years ago, Hurricane Sandy pushed storm surges into the streets of Staten Island, New York, wrecking entire neighborhoods along the small island […]