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Atlantic ocean currents are weakening — and it could make the climate in some regions unrecognizable
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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'
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Yellowstone holds potentially untapped cache of 'carbon-free' helium for rockets, reactors and superconductors
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Yosemite's ultra-deep canyon may have been carved in part by a ghost volcano and river, provocative research suggests
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Only 0.001% of deep ocean has ever been explored by humans — an area equal to the size of Rhode Island
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See the reconstructed home of 'polar dinosaurs' that thrived in the Antarctic 120 million years ago
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What's hiding under Antarctica's ice?
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Plants: Facts about our oxygen providers
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Satellite study reveals the fastest sinking city in the US
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Jellyfish Lake: Palau's saltwater pool with a toxic bottom and surface waters brimming with millions of jellyfish
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What's hiding under Antarctica's ice?
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Antarctica: Facts about the southernmost continent
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Wilkes Land crater: The giant hole in East Antarctica's gravitational field likely caused by a meteorite
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'We didn't expect to find such a beautiful, thriving ecosystem': Hidden world of life discovered beneath Antarctic iceberg
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Scientists create new map showing ice-free Antarctica in more detail than ever before
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Lake Vostok: The 15 million-year-old lake buried miles beneath Antarctica's ice
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Scientists discover hidden 'plumbing' that's driving Antarctic ice sheet into the ocean
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How is the ocean melting Antarctica? We're starting to figure it out
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'Queen of icebergs' A23a is barreling toward a remote South Atlantic island. Millions of animals could be at risk
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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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Earth from spaceGhostly figure emerges in Greenland ice after underground lake collapses
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Gateway to the underworld: The enormous permafrost 'megaslump' in Siberia that keeps getting bigger
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Climate change made April's catastrophic floods worse, report finds
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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds
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'The Big One' could rock the Pacific Northwest and fuel sea-level rise and massive flooding
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OpinionClimate wars are approaching — and they will redefine global conflict
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Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise
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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'
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The North Pole could shift 90 feet west by 2100
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Climate change: Facts about our warming planet
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Why is this giant desert turning green? Scientists may finally know the answer.
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'This is a very big earthquake': The science behind Myanmar's magnitude 7.7 earthquake
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Creepy 'ghost lanterns' in South Carolina are not what they seem, study suggests
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Earthquakes: Facts about why the Earth moves
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'We've just seen earthquake after earthquake after earthquake': Santorini earthquake swarm intensifies but likely won't trigger volcano
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Santorini is having a swarm of tiny earthquakes. Is the Greek isle about to erupt?
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Yellowstone National Park earthquake shakes hottest and oldest geothermal area
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Scientists find hidden mechanism that could explain how earthquakes 'ignite'
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Tibet earthquake: Deadly magnitude 7.1 quake hits holy city of Shigatse
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Massive magnitude 7 earthquake strikes off California coast
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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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Physicists solve nuclear fusion mystery with mayonnaise
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Nuclear fusion reactor in UK sets new world record for energy output
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Massive hydrogen reservoir discovered beneath an Albanian mine could be an untapped source of clean energy
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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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'I have never written of a stranger organ': The rise of the placenta and how it helped make us human
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Yosemite's ultra-deep canyon may have been carved in part by a ghost volcano and river, provocative research suggests
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El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest
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Yellowstone holds potentially untapped cache of 'carbon-free' helium for rockets, reactors and superconductors
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Iran's folded rocks: The crumpled mountains at the intersection of Asia and Europe
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'Quiet Chernobyl' changed Earth's surface so much the planet's mantle is still moving 80 years later
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Study reveals 'flawed argument' in debate over when plate tectonics began
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Massive magma eruptions may have ripped Africa and South America apart
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Rainbow Mountains: China's psychedelic landscape created when 2 tectonic plates collided
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North America is 'dripping' down into Earth's mantle, scientists discover
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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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Lost world of lagoons filled with mounds of microbes discovered in Atacama desert
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After you die, your microbiome cooperates with soil microbes to 'recycle' your body
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Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest
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See the reconstructed home of 'polar dinosaurs' that thrived in the Antarctic 120 million years ago
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Plants: Facts about our oxygen providers
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Scientists find the best crops to grow during the apocalypse
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Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning
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'Woolly devil' flowers in Texas desert are the 1st new plant genus discovered in a US national park in almost 50 years
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Chinese scientists use laser drones to count the country's trees — all 142.6 billion of them
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'Gossiping neighbors': Plants didn't evolve to be kind to each other, study finds
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Scientists discover pristine ancient forest frozen in time in Rocky Mountains
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'Rising temperatures melted corpses out of the Antarctic permafrost': The rise of one of Earth's most iconic trees in an uncertain world
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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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Kids' Mental Health Risks Rise with Poor Air Quality
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Jellyfish Lake: Palau's saltwater pool with a toxic bottom and surface waters brimming with millions of jellyfish
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Earth from spaceMysterious substance spotted swirling across the surface of the Baltic Sea
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Corryvreckan whirlpool: Scotland's 'raging cauldron' that is named after a Norse king and said to house a witch
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Atlantic ocean currents are weakening — and it could make the climate in some regions unrecognizable
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The Earth's oceans used to be green — and could one day turn purple, scientists say
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Scientists say these North American rivers 'shouldn't exist.' Here's why they do.
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Global sea levels rose a whopping 125 feet after the last ice age
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Drake Passage: The 'most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe' — where waves reach up to 80 feet
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Ocean's 'heart' is slowing down — and it will affect the entire planet's circulation
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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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Ice melt in Alaska threatens to unleash unprecedented 'mega-tsunami,' scientists warn
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Earth from spaceHeavy dusting of 'pineapple powder' paints Hawaii's volcanoes white after near-record snowfall
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Mystery of Bolivian 'zombie' volcano finally solved
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Earth from spacePair of 'glowing' lava lakes spotted on Africa's most active volcanoes as they erupt simultaneously
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'It was amazing': Scientists discover ash from 2 mystery volcanic eruptions in Wyoming
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Lava bursts through Grindavík's defense barriers as new volcanic eruption begins on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula
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Huge steam plume rises from Alaska's Mount Spurr as volcano edges closer to eruption
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Never-before-seen chain of volcanoes discovered hiding near the Cook Islands
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Earth from space'Shining anus' volcano in Tonga coughs up cloud of smoke during recent eruption
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Alaskan volcano Mount Spurr showing activity that will 'most likely end in an explosive eruption,' scientist says
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What's an 'omega block,' and why is it messing with US weather right now?
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La Niña is dead — what that means for this year's hurricanes and weather
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La Niña finished after just a few months
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'Major disruption' has caused Arctic polar vortex to slide off North Pole, scientists say
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1-in-1,000-year flood about to hit central US
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Scientists drilled into Belize's Great Blue Hole and discovered a worrying trend
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Earth from spaceGiant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
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'More people are in harm's way': Tornadoes are shifting east of Tornado Alley, forecasters warn
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Mount Washington: Home to 'the world's worst weather' with record wind speeds of 231 mph
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