Earth Observation
August 2026
Every article published in August 2026. 11 articles · Back to full archive
Flora And Fauna
In 1994, a park ranger descending a sandstone gorge west of Sydney found a conifer from a 200-million-year-old family, and the latest official count found only 45 mature Wollemi pines across four secret wild stands
Mars Daily
How did a hilltop sanctuary in southeastern Anatolia, built with 5-metre limestone pillars around 9600 BCE, predate Stonehenge by roughly 6,000 years without metal tools, pottery, or the wheel?
Mars Daily
Olympus Mons on Mars rises about 22 kilometres above the surrounding plains but stretches roughly 600 kilometres wide, so a climber standing on its slope would see only a gentle rise in every direction and never realise they were on the tallest volcano in the solar system
Mars Daily
In 1846, French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier predicted the position of an unseen eighth planet from irregularities in Uranus's orbit, and when he wrote to the Berlin Observatory, they found Neptune within a single degree of his coordinates on the very first night they looked
Mars Daily
How does a coastal tree that grows with its roots in salt water store three to five times more carbon per hectare than the tropical rainforest inland from it?
Psychology
8 daily habits of people who still feel sharp and energetic in their 70s
Psychology
7 things emotionally secure people never need to prove
Psychology
8 subtle signs people respect you far more than they let on
Psychology
7 things people over 60 stopped apologising for, and never regretted
Mars Daily