Seafarers were visiting remote Arctic islands over 4000 years ago
A site on Isbjørne Island where Palaeo-Inuit people erected a circular tentMatthew Walls, Mari Kleist,…
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Jurassic-Level Predators Once Ruled Caribbean Islands
Imagine this: you’re on a beach vacation in the Dominican Republic about 5 million years…
The Uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, Targeted by Tariffs, Are a Biological Wonderland
The Heard and McDonald Islands Are a Pristine Biological WonderlandTrump’s tariffs put a spotlight on…
Why Animals Living on Islands Are at Greater Risk of Extinction
Why Animals Living on Islands Are at Greater Risk of ExtinctionWarm-blooded island species tend to…
Strange ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon Titan may be porous iceberg
Infrared images of Saturn’s icy moon TitanNASA/JPL-Caltech/Stéphane Le Mouélic, Virginia Pasek The seas of Saturn’s…
‘Islands’ poking out of black holes may solve the information paradox
Nothing escapes a black hole’s immense gravity, but it may still be possible to detect…
Inside the Marshall Islands’ life-or-death plan to survive climate change
The Marshall Islands extend across a wide stretch of the Pacific Ocean, with dozens of…
Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban ‘Heat Islands’
On a July day in 2021 that would become blazing hot, dozens of community volunteers…