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La Niña is dead — what that means for this year's hurricanes and weatherScientists thought La Niña was coming. It didn't — at least for now. What could that mean for this year's hurricane season, and how might long-term climate change affect El Niño and La Niña patterns?
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A long-lost ice sheet could predict the future of New York City — one in which Lower Manhattan and Coney Island are 'perpetually submerged'Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City.
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Huge lithium deposits are in Nevada. Here's why.Nevada is becoming a major producer of lithium, thanks to topography, climate, and geologic serendipity.
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Ancient Egyptians used so much copper, they polluted the harbor near the pyramids, study findsNew geoarchaeological research shows that metalworking in ancient Egypt led to significant contamination in a nearby port.
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Plate tectonics fired up at least 3 billion years ago, study of ancient rocks in Australia indicatesResearchers have discovered the world's oldest known arc-slicing fault in Australia, intensifying the debate over the origins of plate tectonics.
