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Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands of years—long enough for life’s building blocks to form. Scientists now think these environments may have been common on early Earth, making them aContinue Reading

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A view of NASA’s Orion spacecraft following its outbound correction burn, refining the spacecraft’s trajectory toward the Moon. Orion and the four crew members of the Artemis II mission will conduct a flyby around the far side of the Moon on Monday, April 6. NASA Mission control teams in Houston andContinue Reading

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Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and investigative reporter Katie Surma as they discuss how the Shuar people in Ecuador are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant. By Katie Surma In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador,Continue Reading

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The courts will decide if the first “climate superfund” law in the nation survives, a likely years-long battle. Vermont towns, meanwhile, must figure out how to pay for infrastructure that extreme weather won’t destroy. By Dana Drugmand, Nathaniel Eisen RUTLAND, Vt.—Eighteen years after the first “climate tort” lawsuit was filed,Continue Reading