Earth.com

Earth.com stands out as the go-to online platform for individuals passionate about our planet and eager to contribute positively. Established by Eric Ralls, this organization is based in Telluride, Colorado, and officially launched on October 1, 2016. Earth.com caters to those who have a genuine interest in nature, the environment, and scientific discoveries. It’s a space for anyone who wants to make a meaningful impact on the Earth. Our mission is to deliver engaging and original content. This commitment is reflected in our extensive library of approximately 6 million pages filled with news articles, blogs, videos, images, and dedicated pages for nearly every species on Earth.

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Fires spread in New Mexico amid extreme drought

1 week ago | earth.com | Chrissy Sexton

Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features active wildfires and scorched landscapes in New Mexico, where the Trout and Buck fires continue to burn across the Gila National Forest and nearby counties. “As extreme drought gripped parts of New Mexico in June 2025, firefighters battled large wildland fires in the southwestern part of the state,” noted NASA.
New study on Y chromosome disappearance finds direct link to much greater cancer risk

1 week ago | earth.com | Eric Ralls

Men inherit their Y chromosome much the way families pass down a favorite pocketknife – practically unchanged from father to son. For decades, biologists treated this tiny stretch of DNA as little more than a switch for making testes. Recent work flips that idea on its head. The Y chromosome turns out to influence immune function, cancer risk, and even how long a man might live. Scientists once assumed its limited gene set made it a genetic lightweight.
Scientists find a built-in 'memory janitor' that helps your brain forget some things on purpose

1 week ago | earth.com | Eric Ralls

When you juggle a phone number, an address, and directions – all while driving – you will notice that stray memory details, like the jingle on the radio, try to muscle their way in and vie for space and attention in your brain. Neuroscientists have long suspected that the brain employs an internal “memory janitor” that’s able to sweep that clutter away, and a new study finally catches the cleanup crew in action.
Escaping dead zones in the "barren plateau" of quantum computing

1 week ago | earth.com | Eric Ralls

Quantum computers promise to solve puzzles that overwhelm the fastest super‑computers, yet training many of today’s flagship algorithms often feels like pedaling in sand. Researchers call the trap a “barren plateau.” These barren plateaus are stretches of the quantum algorithm optimization landscape so unnervingly flat that gradient‑based methods cannot tell uphill from downhill.
NASA's Roman telescope hopes to solve the dark matter mystery

1 week ago | earth.com | Eric Ralls

The universe keeps hiding most of its mass, yet it leaves telltale fingerprints. Astronomers are about to read them with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2027. Roman’s survey camera will sweep the sky for more than 160,000 distorted galaxy images, which act as natural zoom lenses forged by gravity.
Physicists entangle 13,000 nuclear spins, unlocking the power of the 'dark state'

1 week ago | earth.com | Eric Ralls

Physicists have been searching for ways to link photons and local quantum bits in a single system. One approach that uses quantum dots is particularly appealing. By carefully steering atomic nuclear spins, researchers have found a way to store and retrieve quantum information without sacrificing stability or flexibility.
Thousands of colors in the Sculptor Galaxy

1 week ago | earth.com | Chrissy Sexton

Today’s Image of the Day from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) features a stunning view of the Sculptor Galaxy, one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible from Earth. The ultra-detailed image, which was captured using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, reveals features in the Sculptor Galaxy that have never been seen before. ESO researcher Enrico Congiu led a new study on the Sculptor Galaxy that is published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Fighting coastal erosion with a 'shockingly' simple solution, and it actually works

1 week ago | earth.com | Eric Ralls

Coastal communities can’t catch a break. Waves pound the shores, storms grow fiercer with the changing climate, and rising seas nibble away at the sand supporting coastal properties around the world. Standard defenses – sea walls, trucked-in sand, and injections of cement – buy time but rarely offer a lasting fix. Something simpler and sturdier is needed before more beaches slip beneath the surf.
Previously unknown properties of a very unusual metal challenge a 150-year-old assumption

1 week ago | earth.com | Eric Ralls

Nearly every modern gadget relies on metals that behave exactly as textbooks predict. Gallium refuses to play along. Nearly 150 years after French chemist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran added the element to the periodic table, researchers are still sorting out why this silvery liquid shifts its personality when the heat is on.
Scientists studying Earth's largest iron ore deposits uncover a 1.3-billion-year-old secret

1 week ago | earth.com | Eric Ralls

Steel is the skeleton of modern life, yet the iron that makes it has a backstory far older than the first nail. For decades, geologists thought the world’s richest and largest iron ore deposits formed not long after breathable oxygen spread through Earth’s air some 2.2 billion years ago. Fresh evidence now knocks that timing sideways, suggesting the world-class reserves in the Pilbara’s Hamersley Province of Australia are about 1.4 to 1.1 billion years younger than previously believed.