Across hundreds of miles of Alaska’s North Slope, long-frozen ground is thawing. As it does, naturally occurring metals ...

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Mateo Jaramillo sees the future of renewable energy in thousands of iron pellets rusting away in a laboratory in Somerville, Massachusetts. Jaramillo is chief executive of Form Energy, a company that ...

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Arctic rivers flowing through Alaska are increasingly turning orange as wildfires, thawing permafrost and other factors ...

A new investigation into rust on the Moon implicates Earth as the culprit. Oxygen leaking out of Earth is likely responsible for the transformation of iron to hematite (Fe 2 O 3) at the lunar poles.

IN an article in NATURE of March 2 on the rusting of iron, an objection was raised to the work of Lambert and Thomson (Trans. Chem. Soc., 1910) on the ground that their experiments were carried out in ...

Crawford is a historian, publisher, and broadcaster. His new book is The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World Our modern world now has more borderlines than ever before in human ...

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The Arctic is a dramatically different place than it was 20 years ago, when scientists first began giving it an annual ...