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Everett Sloane

Latest Articles by Everett Sloane

Ash from Anak Krakatau shut two of Indonesia’s busiest airports overnight

Kilauea went to watch level as lava spilled over before its 55th fountaining episode

A 166,000-acre fire in north-central Washington is still only two-thirds contained

A floating island of plastic in the Pacific is now twice the size of Texas

A sea the size of Ireland vanished in a generation, stranding ships in desert

The Sahara was green with lakes and hippos just a few thousand years ago

The most radioactive place in Europe has quietly become a wildlife refuge

A quiet Midwestern fault zone could shake a quarter of the country

A mountain near Seattle threatens the city with mud, not lava

Thawing permafrost is releasing carbon, and microbes frozen for millennia

The hottest air ever reliably measured on Earth was recorded in a California valley

One patch of Venezuela gets struck by lightning almost every night of the year

The world’s biggest iceberg broke free and is drifting again after decades stuck

9 of the largest glaciers and ice fields outside the poles

Meta is buying 2.8 gigawatts of nuclear power to keep its AI data centers running

The Timber Fire has torn past 25,000 acres with evacuation orders still in force

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