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Record Cold May Greet New Year's RevelersCalifornia and Nevada will feel an Arctic chill this week when wintry air from Canada arrives on New Year's Eve, possibly setting new record-cold temperatures as revelers ring in the New Year.
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Tsunami Science: Advances Since the 2004 Indian Ocean TragedyAs the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami approaches on Dec. 26, greatly expanded networks of seismic monitors and ocean buoys are on alert for the next killer wave.
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Death Can't Stop Professor from Getting 'Last Word'Caltech professor Don Anderson died of cancer on Dec. 2, but he had the last word. Literally.
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Seismic Waves Show Which Sport's Fans Rock HardestFootball, NASCAR and their rowdy, roaring crowds were pitted in a head-to-head battle this year to see which sport hits highest on the seismic charts.
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'Atmospheric Rivers' to Soak California as Climate WarmsThe "atmospheric rivers" that can bring torrential rains to Northern California will double in frequency by the year 2100 because of climate change, researchers say.
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Greenland's Ice Loss Now Comes from SurfaceGreenland's disappearing ice shifted gears in the past decade, switching from shrinking glaciers to surface melting, researchers reported at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting.
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Super Typhoon Shoved Car-Size Boulders Onto Philippine BeachesBoulders the size of stretch limousines were moved by storm waves during Super Typhoon Haiyan.
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Violent Volcanic Blasts Ripped Through Antarctic Ice Sheet TwiceVolcanoes punched through a remote part of the West Antarctic ice sheet twice in the last 50,000 years.
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Strange Rock from Russia Contains 30,000 DiamondsThe most diamond-rich rock ever found was discovered in Russia's Udachnaya diamond mine.
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For Sex-Changing Fish, Size Matters in Urchin BattleA sex-changing California fish is growing bigger and gobbling up more sea urchins after a decade of protection, a new study finds.
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New Dates Tie Volcanic Flood to Dinosaur ExtinctionNew, more precise dates for India's Deccan Traps eruptions could revive the idea that the massive set of lava flows caused the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction.
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California Drought Linked to Natural Causes, Not Climate ChangeNatural temperature swings in the ocean, not global warming, are driving California's extreme drought, according to a new government study.
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California's Worst Drought Ever Is 1st Taste of FutureThe 2012-2014 California drought is the worst to parch central and southern California in the past 1,200 years.
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Yosemite Falls Revives After Hard RainYosemite Falls reappeared in full glory after two days of significant rain in the Sierra Nevada.
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Rapid Warming Hits Antarctica's Shallow SeasShallow ocean waters everywhere around Antarctica have warmed steadily for the past 40 years.
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How to Cook Up a Volcano: Heat and ServeA new study shows how volcanoes cook up an eruption from the cold mush of crystals in their underground magma chambers.
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Continent-Sized Scan Reveals US UnderbellyScientists have lifted the lid off North America, sharpening their view of the mysterious structures underneath the United States.
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Quiet 2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season Comes to a CloseThe mellow 2014 Atlantic hurricane season ends Sunday (Nov. 30), marking another year without major hurricanes hitting the Eastern United States.
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World's Newest Lava Lake Appears in AfricaHeralded by fiery lava fountains and plumes of poisonous gas, a new lava lake has appeared atop one of Africa's most active volcanoes.
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Secrets Cracked in Yosemite's Tuolumne MeadowsTuolumne Meadows's broad plain is an oddball in Yosemite's rugged landscape. Geologists say unusual fractures in the local granite explain the striking contrast.
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2014 Will Be Earth's Hottest Year on Record, Despite US ColdArctic storms could bury Buffalo under heaps of snow until Christmas and 2014 will still be the hottest year on Earth since 1880, climate scientists said today.
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Small Volcanic Eruptions Slow Global WarmingSmall volcanic eruptions account for part of the global warming slowdown since 2000, a new study reports.
