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A team of scientists have used satellite data to detect methane plumes from an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive and now confirmed to be a living member of the species. 

Wildfires raged, drought conditions improved slightly

Astronomers have found only the second example of a highly active, repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) with a compact source of weaker but persistent radio emission between bursts. 

Thanks to climate change, high-elevation forests in the Central Cascade mountains of the Pacific Northwest are burning more frequently and expansively than in the recent past, prompting researchers and fire managers to question whether forests will be able to recover from these emerging fire patterns and whether they will require human assistance to do so.