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Climate Change · SydneySydney has received more than 2,200mm of rainfall since January. The city's previous rainfall record of 2,194mm was set in 1950. Widespread flooding across Australia has already killed more than 20 people this year. Experts say the wet weather has been driven by climate change and the La Niña phenomenon.See the Story
Sydney records wettest year since 1858 as Australia braces for more floods
41% Center coverage: 39 sources
Travel · SantiagoA forest fire that tore through part of Chile’s Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai. The UNESCO World Heritage-listed island lies some 3,500 km (2,174 miles) off the coast of Chile.See the Story
Easter Island statues suffer 'irreparable' damage in fire
46% Center coverage: 15 sources
US & CanadaThe SpaceX capsule pulled up to the station a day after launching into orbit. The linkup occurred 260 miles (420 kilometers) above the Atlantic, just off the west coast of Africa. It was the first time in 20 years that a Russian hitched a ride from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.See the Story
SpaceX delivers Russian, Native American women to station
63% Center coverage: 19 sources
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Europe · WarsawMedical and genetics experts in Poland say that a heart infection caused by a common skin bacteria could have caused the 1817 death of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish and U.S. military leader and national hero.See the Story
Heart infection could be cause of death of Polish, US hero
60% Center coverage: 10 sources
US & CanadaNASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann, and Josh Cassada, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission. The international crew will serve as NASA's fifth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX aboard the orbital laboratory.See the Story
Watch live: SpaceX's Crew 5 mission docks with space station
86% Center coverage: 7 sources
SpacePlants will be chosen based on how well they cope in extreme conditions and how quickly they germinate. One likely choice is an Australian "resurrection grass" that can survive without water in a dormant state. The project is an early step towards growing plants for food, medicine and oxygen production.See the Story
Australia Seeks to Grow Plants on Moon by 2025
50% Center coverage: 6 sources
Offbeat66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake so massive that it shook the planet for weeks to months after the collision. The amount of energy released in this 'mega-earthquake' is estimated at 1023 joules, which is about 50,000 times more energy than was released in the magnitude 9.1 Sumatra earthquake in 2004.See the Story
Impact that killed the dinosaurs triggered 'mega-earthquake' that lasted weeks to months
75% Center coverage: 4 sources
EnvironmentFacing extreme conditions such as starvation and stress, some bacteria enter a dormant state in which life processes stop. Biologists have discovered how they assess environmental conditions for a return to life, carrying implications for evaluating life on Earth as well as other planets.See the Story
The thinking undead: How dormant bacteria calculate their return to life
100% Center coverage: 4 sources
Climate ChangeA new scientific review article captures the unique and dynamic characteristics of coastal lagoon ecosystems in the Arctic Beringia Region, and discusses how climate change effects and human development could alter these habitats.See the Story
Lagoons from the Arctic's 'forgotten coast' teem with fish and birds, vulnerable to climate change and human development: Lagoons comprise 40 percent of the Chukchi Sea coastline
100% Center coverage: 3 sources
Science · EgyptOn Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves, part of a programme to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines and fight climate change and its impacts.See the Story
Egypt replants mangrove 'treasure' to fight climate change impacts
Coverage: 2 sources
Science · RwandaNew data from Rwanda, and some of the first published on how COVID-19 has impacted school attendance in the Global South, suggest that a widely-predicted spike in drop-out rates has "not materialized".See the Story
Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to school
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
