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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Amazon deforestation jumps 29%
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The destruction of the world’s largest rainforest accelerated last year with a 29% spike in deforestation, according to final figures released by the Brazilian government on Wednesday that confirmed a reversal in gains seen sinc
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Global Warming Could Cause More Cold Snaps
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Remember that sudden, extreme plunge in temperatures throughout much of the United States in January 2014, which led to life-threatening wind chills that forced schools to close in the Midwest? Many were mystified to hear that it
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Massive Extinct Volcano Discovered Beneath Pacific
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Lurking some 3.2 miles (5.1 kilometers) beneath the Pacific Ocean, a massive mountain rises up from the seafloor, say scientists who discovered the seamount using sonar technology.
The seamount is about two-thirds of a mile hig
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3,000-Year-Old Golden Bowl Hides Grisly Tale
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In 1958, archaeologists were digging through the ruins of a burned Iron Age citadel called Hasanlu in northwestern Iran when they pulled a spectacular, albeit crushed, golden bowl from the layers of destruction.
The 3,000-year-
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Audubon Report Names Birds at Climate Risk
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The National Audubon Society has released the Audubon Birds and Climate Report, a study that predicts how climate change could affect the ranges of 588 North American bird species, mapping where each bird's ideal climatic range wi
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Nicaragua 'Meteorite' Probably Wasn't a Meteorite
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Big ‘boom’? Check. Big crater? Check. It must be a meteorite! That was the key logic behind the “meteorite” that apparently narrowly missed Nicaragua’s capital city over the weekend, but some craters can be deceiving.
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Red tide still lingers off coast of Hernando County
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large bloom of red tide continues to linger about 20 miles off the coast of Hernando County. Satellite images from the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida showed a patchy bloom at least 20 miles offs
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Will Iconic Sequoias Fall to Climate Change?
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California's iconic trees, the giant sequoias, may sail through the state's current extreme drought. The huge trees survived even drier conditions during their long lives, studies show. The oldest sequoias live for more than 3,000
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Weird Microscopic Structure Found in Mars Meteorite
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Scientists have found a strange structure resembling a microbial cell inside a Martian meteorite, but they're not claiming that it's evidence of Red Planet life.
The researchers discovered the microscopic oval object within the
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Tomb Raiders Likely Plundered Ancient Greek Site
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Archaeologists on Monday entered the antechamber of Greece’s mystery tomb in Amphipolis — only to find another wall blocking the tomb’s interior as well as worrying evidence of looting in the form of a suspicious opening.
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What Caused California's Napa Earthquake?
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A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Northern California yesterday (Aug. 24) at 3:20 a.m. local time. The earthquake's epicenter was a few miles south of Napa Valley's renowned wineries, and the quake busted barrels and bottl
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Boy finds 10,000-year-old arrowhead on New Jersey beach
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A boy playing on a New Jersey beach has unearthed a 10,000-year-old arrowhead possibly used by ancient Native Americans to spear fish or hunt mastodon. Noah Cordle, 10, and his family were vacationing on the Long Beach Island last
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Geology major studies volcanoes in Arizona
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Recent news reports on the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland have reminded many of its potentially destructive nature, but for one geology major at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, it is a reminder that volcanoes are a fasc
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Scarlet Runner circumnavigated the globe
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The proud owner Rob Date reports that in the early hours of Tuesday morning Scarlet Runner a Reichel Pugh 52 will arrive in Sydney completing a circumnavigation of the world. She was last in Sydney for the 2013 Sydney to Southport
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Norway whale catch reaches highest number since 1993
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hermen in Norway have caught 729 whales this year, the highest number since it resumed the controversial practice in defiance of international pressure, industry sources said on Monday.
"The season is more or less finished and
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Greek archaeologists enter large underground tomb
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The Culture Ministry said Monday that archaeologists have partially investigated the antechamber of the tomb at Amphipolis and uncovered a marble wall concealing one or more inner chambers. However, a hole in the decorated wall an
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Extreme Sailing Series - J.P. Morgan BAR on the podium
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started out as a good day to be building an Ark, with torrential rain and not much wind, but the breeze built and by the final race the teams had to reduce sail. It all came down to this final double-points race in the breeze, and
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Rosetta mission: Potential comet landing sites chosen
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Europe's Rosetta mission, which aims to put a robot on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has identified five potential locations for the touchdown. The choice of sites was driven largely by operational considerations - they are pla
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A tough climb: From mountaineer to tour operator
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The card has four small pictures of him posing on top of snow-peaked mountains. "National hero Hassan Sadpara: first Pakistani to climb all five peaks above 8,000 metres, plus Everest," reads the card. For a man with humble beginn
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Local geology expert weighs in on Bay Area quake
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The San Andreas Fault is the largest fault in the state of California- and it happens to run right through San Juan Bautista. Local geologist Bob Barminski said fault lines across the state are connected like a spider web
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Future sailing stars compete off Portland
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Potential future sailing stars are showing their skills off the coast of Dorset this week. The Cadet class World Championships are being held at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy. It's attracted some of the best y
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More than 100,000 Elephants Killed in 3 Years
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The insatiable demand for ivory is causing a dramatic decline in the number of African elephants. Poachers are hunting the animal faster than it can reproduce, with deaths affecting more than half of elephant families in the Sambu
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How Do Black Holes Form? Clue Found
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Black holes are some of the strangest objects in the universe, and they typically fall into one of two size extremes: "small" ones that are dozens of times more massive than the sun and other "supermassive" black holes that are bi
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Epic Drought in West is Literally Moving Mountains
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Climate change is driving the Greenland Ice Sheet to melt, which is contributing to sea level rise. But imagine that the same amount of water melting from Greenland each year is being lost in California and the rest of the West be
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Kayaking to the Jungle in Nicaragua
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Nicaragua has recently become a popular tourist destination for its eco-friendly resorts, unspoiled beaches and waves popular with surfers.
Now, travelers have a chance to discover a different part of the Central American coun
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