Witness scenic beauty, marine wildlife, and glaciers in Glacier Bay, Alaska
Witness scenic beauty, marine wildlife, and glaciers in Glacier Bay, Alaska
Scenes of Glacier Bay, Alaska.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Scenes of Glacier Bay, Alaska.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Evgeniy Parilov/Dreamstime.comLearn how plastic debris affects the Pacific Ocean.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about a controversial 2017 study that used thorium/uranium dating of broken mastodon bones to argue that a prehistoric human species, such as Neanderthals, lived in North America some 130,000 years ago.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny ChmielewskiThe first circumnavigation of the globe was led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who was charged with finding a Spanish route to the Moluccas. He was killed on Mactan Island in 1521, but the expedition returned to Spain under the command of Juan Sebastián del Cano.
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Encyclopædia Britannica,-Inc.The Earth may be less spherical and more football-shaped than you thought.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Glaciologist Bethan Davies explains the science behind glaciers and how glaciers are a window into Earth's changing climate. Plus: Are there glaciers on other planets?
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NASA Scientific Visualization StudioLearn about the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, by watching this NASA visualization of the Moon's umbra—the darkest part of the Moon's shadow—as it crosses North America.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.A look at Yellowstone National Park, western U.S., including its geothermal features and wildlife.
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Created and produced by QA International. © QA International, 2010. All rights reserved. www.qa-international.comThe distribution of the seven continents.
