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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered over Chile in July 2025, may be more than 7.6 billion years old — roughly 3 billion years older than our solar system — and its speed and trajectory suggest it came from the Milky Way’s ancient thick-disk population, making it a possible relic of a planetary system that formed billions of years before ours
How does breaching a dike and removing a tide gate on a Pacific Northwest estuary let salt water back into diked pasture and bring juvenile salmon and sculpins into fields that had grown hay for decades?
Sandhill cranes stage on Nebraska's Platte River each March in flocks approaching 1 million birds, roosting shoulder to shoulder on shallow sandbars the river only maintains because upstream irrigation withdrawals stop short of erasing its braided channel
Manatees in Florida's Crystal River gather by the hundreds each winter around freshwater springs that stay at a constant 72 degrees Fahrenheit, a thermal refuge that protects them from potentially fatal cold stress when Gulf water falls below 68 degrees
