Moon Daily
August 2026
Every article published in August 2026. 12 articles · Back to full archive
Earth Observation
Every year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust lifted from the Sahara crosses the Atlantic and settles on the Amazon, and the phosphorus in that red haze is what stops the rainforest soil from starving
Earth Observation
Why did a Southern Hemisphere reef system suffer four mass bleaching events in seven years while isolated patches within the same 2,300-kilometre structure kept their coral cover almost untouched?
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Adults who keep their childhood bedroom exactly as it was often aren't stuck in the past, they may be preserving the only version of themselves that was allowed to exist without a job description
Farm News
How did an arid Middle Eastern country cut freshwater use for farming by 36 percent in two decades as its net agricultural product rose?
Terradaily
How does a plateau the size of France, once losing 1.6 billion tonnes of soil a year to a river so silt-heavy it ran yellow, now hold its hillsides together with terraces cut by a single generation of farmers?
Earth Observation
How does a semi-aquatic rodent weighing under 30 kilograms raise a valley's water table, cool downstream temperatures during drought, and store more soil carbon per hectare than the forest it partially drowns?
Space Scopes
In 1962, NASA's Mariner 1 Venus probe veered off course and was destroyed 294.5 seconds after launch after a guidance-antenna failure and an omitted overbar disrupted its guidance system
Moon Daily
The Moon is under constant micrometeoroid bombardment, and because there is no atmosphere to slow anything down, even grain-sized particles arrive at up to 72 kilometres per second and briefly vaporise the rock into a glowing plasma — the Artemis II crew watched six of those flashes in April 2026
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Why does draining a single hectare of tropical peatland release more carbon over a decade than clearing the rainforest that grows on top of it, and why did blocking the drainage canals take almost twenty years to show results?
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The Moon has a permanent tail of sodium atoms stretching hundreds of thousands of kilometres behind it, invisible to the naked eye but bright enough that a telescope on Earth can photograph it glowing every new moon
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