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Watch Air Force fly inside the eye of Hurricane Melissa as experts warn 'storm of the century' will be catastrophic for Jamaica
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Earth from spaceGlowering 'skull' stares upward from a giant volcanic pit in the Sahara
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Why can pumpkins grow so large, but blueberries can't?
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Weird symmetry between Earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres appears to be breaking
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Meat eaten by city-dwelling Americans produces more CO2 than the entire UK — but there are easy ways to slash it
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'Near stationary' Tropical Storm Melissa is moving slower than a person walking — and it may bring deadly flash floods to the Caribbean
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Eternal Flame Falls: New York's mini waterfall that hides a grotto filled with undying fire
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Methane leaks multiplying beneath Antarctic ocean spark fears of climate doom loop
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Scientists discover 85 'active' lakes buried beneath Antarctica's ice
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40-year-old 'queen of icebergs' A23a is no longer world's biggest after losing several 'very large chunks' since May
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Abrupt changes taking place in Antarctica 'will affect the world for generations to come'
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Scientists discover long-lost giant rivers that flowed across Antarctica up to 80 million years ago
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Antarctic sea ice collapse linked to a mysterious spike in ocean salt
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Earth from spaceWorld's largest iceberg, A23a, is disintegrating into thousands of pieces alongside penguin refuge
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NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures. How is that possible?
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What's hiding under Antarctica's ice?
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Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost — and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after
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'It was so unexpected': 90 billion liters of meltwater punched its way through Greenland ice sheet in never-before-seen melting event
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New technologies are helping to regrow Arctic sea ice
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Scientists record never-before-seen 'ice quakes' deep inside Greenland's frozen rivers
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'Ominous milestone for the planet': Arctic Ocean's 1st ice-free day could be just 3 years away, alarming study finds
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Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished after comparing satellite images
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Earth from spaceMassive blue 'melt pond' in Arctic glacier is an eerie sign of things to come
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Earth from space4 near-identical glaciers spark new life in Arctic island's 'polar desert'
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Earth from spaceIconic 'Star Trek' symbol shines brightly in sea of muddy Arctic sea ice
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Meat eaten by city-dwelling Americans produces more CO2 than the entire UK — but there are easy ways to slash it
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CO2 levels reach record new high, locking in more global warming
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'An increasing attack on water resources from multiple fronts': Scientists warn 'day zero droughts' could hit before 2030
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Hidden, supercharged 'thermostat' may cause Earth to overcorrect for climate change
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China issues new pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions — is it now a global leader in climate action?
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Extreme weather caused more than $100 billion in damage by June — smashing US records
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OpinionWhen China makes a climate pledge, the world should listen
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The Panama Canal needs a staggering amount of water to operate. Climate change could threaten that, study warns
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Yosemite's glaciers have survived 20,000 years — but we could be the first people to see Sierra Nevada ice-free
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Link between Cascadia and San Andreas Fault earthquakes discovered 30 years after lost vessel stumbled across key data
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Mystery quake that rocked Northern California in 1954 came from 'eerily quiet' Cascadia Subduction Zone
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San Andreas fault could unleash an earthquake unlike any seen before, study of deadly Myanmar quake suggests
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'Sleeping giant' fault beneath Canada could unleash a major earthquake, research suggests
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Russia earthquake: Magnitude 8.8 megaquake hits Kamchatka, generating tsunamis across the Pacific
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CountdownThe 21 largest recorded earthquakes in history
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First video of an earthquake fault cracking has revealed another surprise
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The San Andreas Fault: Facts about the crack in California's crust that could unleash the 'Big One'
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Almost half of California's faults — including San Andreas — are overdue for earthquakes
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'This technology is possible today': Nuclear waste could be future power source and increase access to a rare fuel
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Nuclear fusion record smashed as German scientists take 'a significant step forward' to near-limitless clean energy
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There's 90,000 tons of nuclear waste in the US. How and where is it stored?
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What is 'induced atmospheric vibration' and did it really cause power outages across Spain and Portugal?
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This ‘glow in the dark’ battery runs on nuclear waste
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China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds
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Giant reserves of 'gold' hydrogen may be lurking beneath at least 30 US states, 1st-of-its-kind map reveals
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Nuclear fusion could be the clean energy of the future — but these 'tough' challenges stand in the way
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Just a fraction of the hydrogen hidden beneath Earth's surface could power Earth for 200 years, scientists find
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Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes.
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In rare evolutionary event, weird platypus cousin evolved from living in water to living on land
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Evolution itself can evolve, new study argues
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Our outer ears may have come from ancient fish gills, scientists discover
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Ferns can evolve 'backward,' scientists discover
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Sunlight shapes our evolution — and may explain why some people have curly hair
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Evolution quiz: Can you naturally select the correct answers?
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Raindrops may have helped kick-start life on the planet
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Which animals are evolving fastest?
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Eternal Flame Falls: New York's mini waterfall that hides a grotto filled with undying fire
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Rare half-pink rough diamond with 'astounding' weight of 37.4 carats discovered in Botswana
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Scientists discover first direct evidence that slivers of 'proto-Earth' may survive today
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Stalagmites adhere to a single mathematical rule, scientists discover
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Satellites detected strange gravity signal coming from deep within Earth almost 20 years ago, study reveals
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FeaturePlate tectonics may be why Earth has life — and the key to finding life elsewhere in the universe
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Earth from spaceSea of Saharan 'star dunes' clashes with otherworldly terrain where 2 countries meet
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Perplexing diamonds from South Africa mine contain 'almost impossible' chemistry
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Weird glass in Australia appears to be from giant asteroid impact — but scientists 'yet to locate the crater'
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Australia's pink lakes: The remnants of ancient rivers now teeming with microbes that make rosy pigments
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Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication
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'It is our obligation to future generations': Scientists want thousands of human poop samples for microbe 'doomsday vault'
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'Mirror life forms' may sound like science fiction, but scientists warn they could be deadly to humans and destroy the environment
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Mouse brains, cannabis plants and spider eyes: 20 jaw-dropping images of the microscopic world around us
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'Loch ness monster' microbe stretches its neck to 30 times its body length in seconds
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'The most critically harmful fungi to humans': How the rise of C. auris was inevitable
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Hidden 'biosphere' of extreme microbes discovered 13 feet below Atacama Desert is deepest found there to date
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Scientists discover once-in-a-billion-year event — 2 lifeforms merging to create a new cell part
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Why can pumpkins grow so large, but blueberries can't?
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Fruits and vegetables quiz: Do you know where pumpkins, blueberries and broccoli come from?
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Plants self-organize in a 'hidden order,' echoing pattern found across nature
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Scientists discover gold nanoparticles hidden in spruce tree needles
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Do figs really have dead wasps in them?
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Cairo Fossil Forest: The oldest forest in North America with 385 million-year-old trees
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'This needs to happen fast': Scientists race to cryopreserve a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct
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Chinese scientists create multicolored glow-in-the-dark succulents that recharge in sunlight
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Plants have a secret, second set of roots deep underground that scientists didn't know about
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Scientists are finally learning what's inside mysterious 'halo' barrels submerged off Los Angeles
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Earth from spaceGolden river of toxic waste spills out from deadly mining disaster in South Africa
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What are the most polluted cities in the world?
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Pollution facts and types of pollution
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Even brief exposure to diesel fumes alters activity in key brain network, study finds
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Monet and Turner's atmospheric landscapes actually depicted air pollution, new study finds
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How Much Trash Is on Mount Everest?
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Hole in the ozone layer has grown for a 3rd year in a row — but scientists aren’t concerned
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OpinionNo More Free-Pass for Carbon Pollution (Op-Ed)
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Earth from spaceShapeshifting 'braided river' in Tibet is the highest in the world, and is becoming increasingly unstable
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An 'ice tsunami' in 2024 ripped through the Yukon with such force it tore up trees and the riverbed
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Coral Triangle: The giant hidden 'Amazon' beneath the sea that appears somewhat resilient to climate change
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The Red Sea experienced 'one of the most extreme environmental events on Earth' 6 million years ago
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Earth from spaceThe whale-shaped island in Belize with a 'great blue blowhole'
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Massive system of rotating ocean currents in the North Atlantic is behaving strangely — and it may be reaching a tipping point
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Chinese submersible explores previously unknown giant craters at the bottom of the Pacific — and they're teeming with life
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Earth from spaceRare milky plumes paint stunning swirls in world's largest 'soda lake'
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Rocket-like jellyfish, regal Komodo dragon and harrowing whale rescue — see the stunning Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 finalists
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Mysterious 'mega-tsunamis' that shook the entire world for 9 days revealed by satellite
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Tsunamis up to 90 feet high smash into New Zealand every 580 years, study finds
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1st mega-tsunami on record since antiquity was triggered by Tonga volcanic eruption
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Powerful 8.1-magnitude earthquake off New Zealand triggers tsunami warnings
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Magnitude-7.3 earthquake strikes Fukushima, tsunami warning issued
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Japan earthquake & tsunami of 2011: Facts and information
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'Invisible' earthquake caused mysterious 2021 tsunami, scientists find
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4-foot tsunami hits Tonga after explosive eruption of underwater volcano
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Lost islands beneath the North Sea survived a mega-tsunami 8,000 years ago
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Earth from space
Glowering 'skull' stares upward from a giant volcanic pit in the Sahara
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Scientists discover new way to predict next Mount Etna eruption
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An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up — 700,000 years after its last eruption
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AI reveals hidden 'ring fault' that is unleashing earthquakes at Italy's Campi Flegrei volcano
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Earth from spaceVolcanic 'googly eyes' stare into space from skull-like peninsula
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See what would happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted 'without any warning' in new AI-generated video
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Earth from spaceSupervolcanic 'hell' caldera in Japan is home to 17 different volcanoes
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A parade of volcanoes is erupting in Russia following an 8.8 earthquake
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Dormant volcano erupts in Russia for first time in around 500 years, days after magnitude 8.8 megaquake
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Watch Air Force fly inside the eye of Hurricane Melissa as experts warn 'storm of the century' will be catastrophic for Jamaica
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'Near stationary' Tropical Storm Melissa is moving slower than a person walking — and it may bring deadly flash floods to the Caribbean
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Tropical Storm Melissa puts Caribbean's most flood-vulnerable places at risk
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The most devastating extreme weather events of the year: Gallery
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Rare Fujiwhara hurricane 'dance' could save East Coast from worst effects of Tropical Storm Imelda
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'A serious threat': China braces as Super Typhoon Ragasa, this year's strongest storm, nears with winds of up to 177 mph
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Earth from spaceExtreme 'golf ball-size' hailstones carve 125-mile 'scar' in Canadian landscape
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Category 4 Hurricane Kiko is heading for Hawaii — but it will weaken before it gets there, forecasters say
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'Now is the time': Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale
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