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European seafloor survey reveals depth of marine litter problem
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A major new survey of the seafloor has found that even in the deepest ocean depths you can find bottles, plastic bags, fishing nets and other types of human litter. The litter was found throughout the Mediterranean, and all the wa
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Stonehenge discovery rewrites history books
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The town of Amesbury, just two miles from Stonehenge, is declared the longest continuously occupied settlement in Britain following a landmark archaeological dig
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Probe politicisation of Sherpa's grief: Climbers
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KATHMANDU: Expedition leaders and operators today decided to ask the government to form a high-level commission to investigate alleged politically-motivated unruly activities of a few liaison officers and guides that fuelled tensi
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East Antarctica More at Risk than Thought to Long-term Thaw
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OSLO (Reuters) - Part of East Antarctica is more vulnerable than expected to a thaw that could trigger an unstoppable slide of ice into the ocean and raise world sea levels for thousands of years, a study showed on Sunday.
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New insight may help predict volcanic eruption behavior
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A new discovery in the study of how lava dome volcanoes erupt may help in the development of methods to predict how a volcanic eruption will behave, say scientists. Volcanologists have discovered that a process called frictional m
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IMG's 2014 Everest Expedition is Officially Over
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With the last IMG team member now off the hill, the expedition is officially over, though still plenty to figure out about the future of climbing on Everest from Nepal.
International Mountain Guides
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Israeli says he has found King David's citadel
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JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli archaeologist says he has found the legendary citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem, rekindling a longstanding debate about using the Bible as a field guide to identifying ancien
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New Penguin Flu Found in Antarctica
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new version of bird flu unlike any other seen on Earth has been discovered in Antarctica, researchers announced today (May 6).
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Paleontologists unveil online showcase of 3-D fossil remains
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More than two decades ago, a paleontologist began the laborious task of digitally scanning the bones of mastodons, mammoths and other prehistoric creatures so the images could be displayed on computers. Several recent technical ad
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The Red Sea: An ocean like all others, after all
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The Red Sea has turned out to be an ideal study object for marine geologists. There they can observe the formation of an ocean in its early phase. However, the Red Sea seemed to go through a different birthing process than the oth
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Meltwater from Tibetan glaciers floods pastures
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Glaciers are important indicators of climate change. Global warming causes mountain glaciers to melt, which, apart from the shrinking of the Greenlandic and Antarctic ice sheets, is regarded as one of the main causes of the presen
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Archaeologists may have found remains of Alfred the Great
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Section of human pelvis has been carbon-dated within lifetimes of Alfred the Great and son Edward the Elder. Archaeologists have identified a piece of bone they believe may have belonged to the English king Alfred the Great
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Birds' migration secrets to be revealed by space tracker
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Icarus, a wildlife receiver circling above Earth, will monitor the epic journeys of tiny birds and insects, helping to warn us of volcanic eruptions and to protect us from diseases. Small birds, butterflies, bees and fruitbats wil
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Lake on Mars could have teemed with microbial life
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Minerals identified by Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover suggest lake contained water of low salinity and neutral pH suitable for life. An enormous crater near the northern plains of Mars once harboured an ancient lake that could have s
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Ancient crater could hold clues about moon's mantle
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Researchers have found evidence of diverse mineralogy in the moon's South Pole Aitken basin, a giant crater left by an impact 4 billion years ago. The findings could mean that some minerals dug up during that ancient impact remain
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NASA-USGS Landsat 8 Satellite Pinpoints Coldest Spots on Earth
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What is the coldest place on Earth? It is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hollows can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius) on a clear winter nig
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Green Lightning Revealed in Volcanic Eruption
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Green lightning is real, but it's only been documented in this one case from a volcanic eruption in Chile. One scientists tries to explain why the flash goes Irish.
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Educators Diving in the Gulf of Mexico
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Down Under, Out Yonder (DUOY) is a five-day workshop designed for educators, hosted by the Gulf of Mexico Foundation and sponsored by ConocoPhillips through a generous donation. The workshop includes two days of on-land coral ree
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Life on board an Antarctic research vessel
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Guardian science correspondent Alok Jha and documentary filmmaker Laurence Topham familiarise themselves with the ship that will be their home in the coming weeks on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
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World's largest solar-powered boat docks in London
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The giant PlanetSolar catamaran, Türanor, the world's largest solar-powered boat, is on the last leg of the first ever attempt to circumnavigate the globe simply by harnessing the power of the sun
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Neolithic skull fragment discovered on banks of Avon
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5,000-year-old mystery has been sparked after part of a human skull was found on a riverbank. Archaeologists said the unbroken piece of upper skull is in "fabulous" condition with the intricate marks from the blood vessels still v
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Massive canyon discovered buried under Greenland ice
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A vast gorge in the Earth on the same scale as the Grand Canyon lies buried under ice in Greenland, scientists have learned.
The massive hidden canyon is at least 466 miles (740km) long and up to 800 metres (2,600ft) deep in pl
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Earth life "may have come from Mars"
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Life may have started on Mars before arriving on Earth, a major scientific conference has heard.
New research supports an idea that the Red Planet was a better place to kick-start biology billions of years ago than the early Ea
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Grand Canyon of Greenland discovered under ice sheet
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The age of discovery isn't over yet. A colossal canyon, the longest on Earth, has just been found under Greenland's ice sheet, scientists announced Thursday in the journal Science.
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Ancient Mega-Fish No Longer the One that Got Away
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For more than a century, the mystery of the true size of a gigantic dinosaur-era fish, Leedsichthys, seemed like the one that got away for paleontologists.
However, a new study may have solved the problem. The study documented
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Life on earth 'began on Mars'
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Evidence is mounting that life on Earth may have started on Mars. A leading scientist has claimed that one particular element believed to be crucial to the origin of life would only have been available on the surface of the red pl
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Eighty sea turtles wash up dead on the coast of Guatemala
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An assortment of marine animals and birds reside along the black volcanic sand beaches of Guatemala's Pacific coast, but lately both residents and visitors on the southeast beaches of the country have observed a tragic event – t
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Arctic mission to protect Russian wildlife
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Russia is planning huge oil and gas developments in the Arctic Ocean off its northern coast - drilling that could threaten pristine wildlife habitats.
Large-scale production could begin in the next two decades, if the price of
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Archaeological Preserve Named New Dark-Sky Park
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In the northwestern corner of New Mexico, the Chaco Culture National Historical Park is famous for protecting the ruins of an ancient Pueblo settlement. But now the 34,000-acre (13,750–hectare) park is being honored for protecti
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Wildfires projected to worsen with climate change
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Research by environmental scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) brings bad news to the western United States, where firefighters are currently battling dozens of fires in at least 11 states.
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Fukushima radioactive plume to hit the US by 2014
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The radioactive stream of toxic fluids released during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster will reach the West Coast of the US by March 2014, but a paper published in the October 2013 edition of the journal Deep-Sea Research
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Scientists Detect Moon's Internal Water on Lunar Surface
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Scientists have been aware that there's ice on the moon for some time. Now, though, they've discovered something else about the lunar surface. It turns out that there's magmatic water, which is water that originates from deep with
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