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Climate tracking apps measure your carbon footprint. Here's how they work

This idea of a carbon footprint comes up a lot in news coverage of about personal climate impact

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

The surprising recovery of once-rare birds

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found.

The Conversation · Sep 9, 2025

Moon blocks satellite views of the sun before lunar eclipse | Space photo of the day for Sept. 9, 2025

Two NOAA satellites saw a solar eclipse on Sept. 7 as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse was seen on Earth.

Space · Sep 9, 2025

No bath, no food, no sex: NDTV & Co. push lunacy around blood moon

Sunday is a day of leisure. But not for TV news.  

Newslaundry · Sep 9, 2025

Giant 'chessboard' surrounds Idaho river in bizarre astronaut photo — Earth from space

A 2017 astronaut photo shows an unusual checkered pattern surrounding a river, just south of the Canadian border. The unique sight is the result of a forest management initiative dating to the 1800s.

LiveScience · Sep 9, 2025

Geerike Schreurs and Frederik Raßmann sprint to victory at Falling Leaves Lahti, outpacing Annika Langvad and Romain Bardet

Lawrence Naesen and Lucy Hempstead scoop up final podium spot at the Gravel Earth Series event in Finland

Cycling News · Sep 9, 2025

PHOTO ESSAY: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech

China runs the largest digital surveillance apparatus on earth. An Associated Press investigation has found that American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025

Spacecraft launcher named for robot in 'Interstellar' could help us reach another star system. Here's how

A new low-cost concept for interstellar travel combines solar power with a slingshot, but it would take a long time to reach the stars.

Space · Sep 8, 2025

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is approaching Earth  — will it become visible to the naked eye?

The comet will come closest to Earth on Oct. 20. There's hope that it may become bright enough to glimpse with the naked eye.

Space · Sep 8, 2025

New photos of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal its tail growing before our eyes

New images reveal interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS beginning to grow a signature tail as it zooms closer to the sun ahead of a close encounter with Earth this fall.

LiveScience · Sep 8, 2025