Two of the most popular stories on our website right now aren’t about presidential nominees Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. They were written more than eight years ago in response to readers’ questions.

NASA has analyzed satellite data and determined the maximum ice coverage of the Arctic is the lowest since 1979 — they've also found the Arctic is losing its perennial ice. The Arctic has lost nearly one million square kilometers of ice coverage since 1979, but hundreds of countries who signed onto the recent Paris Agreement and the Montreal Protocol amendment are trying to keep further temperature increases to a minimum.

Experts assert that, in the coming years, robots will take over hundreds of thousands of jobs that are traditionally done by humans. In a recent interview, Elon Musk stated that Universal Basic Income may be the only economic response to this increasing automation and job loss.

One nuclear site in southeastern Washington processed some 56 million gallons of radioactive waste alone – enough to fill more than 1 million bathtubs. Creating glass with radioactive waste at this site is expected to start around 2022 or 2023, and it could revolutionize waste storage.