Plastic waste is not only infiltrating our oceans, but also the human body in the form of microplastics. Without urgent action, the amount of plastic entering the ocean each year could reach 37 ...

SpaceX's Starship splashed down in the Indian Ocean about an hour after launch. A camera on buoy captured the fireworks. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

A young Microsoft engineer has proposed a radical idea to combat climate change — detonating an 81-gigatonne nuclear bomb ...

The engineer explained that his idea was built on Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), a process wherein carbon dioxide reacts ...

Using a nuclear explosion yield of 81 gigatons, scientists can sequester 30 years' worth of carbon dioxide emissions, the ...

Y ou know the situation is bad when someone suggests detonating a nuclear weapon will make things better. That’s the idea ...

Andy Haverly aims to save Earth by using a 1960s project to extract geological materials from the ocean floor.

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only ... If we are lucky, it will land in the middle of the vast ocean, creating a good-size but innocuous tsunami, or in an uninhabited patch ...

Thankfully, it did not trigger a nuclear explosion. The bomber's warheads ... The exploration of miles of ocean floor was both technically complicated and a very slow process, but after weeks ...

During an alert mission over Baffin Bay in the North Atlantic Ocean ... The resulting explosion damaged the Titan II –- the heaviest and largest nuclear missile the United States ever built ...

Haverly’s idea is to use a buried nuclear explosion in the seabed to accelerate carbon capture by pulverizing basalt and using Enhanced Rock Weathering, which, he says “can sequester ...