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Everett Sloane

Latest Articles by Everett Sloane

The Dead Sea is so salty that swimmers float on top and its shoreline keeps dropping

The Three Gorges Dam is so massive that engineers say it slightly slows Earth’s rotation

The Aral Sea drained so fast that ships now rust in the middle of a desert

The Hoover Dam still holds back a lake so heavy it measurably tilts the ground beneath it

The Greenland ice sheet holds enough water to raise every coastline on Earth by 24 feet

Yellowstone sits on a magma reservoir so large that the ground itself breathes up and down

Iron-rich rocks can make hydrogen straight from the ground, and scientists want to boost it

The Bug Fire burned nearly 94,000 acres across two states

9 of the biggest nuclear power plants in the United States

Forecasters give a new Atlantic disturbance a 70% shot at becoming a storm

A tiny nuclear battery can reportedly run a device for decades on nickel-63

8 costliest hurricanes in U.S. history

Wildfires have scorched 250,000 acres across Washington as a heat wave bakes the West

Forecasters are watching two Atlantic systems that could become the season’s next storms

Three Indonesian volcanoes — Ibu, Lewotobi and Semeru — erupted within hours of each other

Mount St. Helens is quietly rebuilding the dome it blew apart in 1980

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