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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now more than twice the size of Texas

Siberia’s Lake Baikal holds a fifth of Earth’s unfrozen fresh water

10 abandoned places nature is quietly reclaiming

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system

Mercury, closest to the Sun, hides ice in craters sunlight never reaches

A single day on Venus lasts longer than its entire year around the Sun

9 of the largest creatures cruising the open ocean

The Moon drifts about an inch and a half farther from Earth each year

Saturn’s moon Enceladus fires water geysers hundreds of miles into space

Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers and lakes of liquid methane, not water

Jupiter’s moon Europa likely hides more water than all Earth’s oceans combined

Mars hosts Olympus Mons, a volcano nearly three times the height of Everest

Venus is hot enough at the surface to melt lead, about 900 degrees

A fresh solar storm pushed the northern lights into U.S. northern-tier states

Cameroon’s Lake Nyos suffocated 1,700 people overnight with a cloud of CO2

The Arctic ground squirrel supercools its blood below freezing each winter

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