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Multiple lines of evidence suggest global cooling
The consensus may be moving away from global warming and towards global cooling: Scientists have been looking at different lines of evidence suggesting that the globe is in the midst of a slight cooling...
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Perfluorotributylamine: New Greenhouse Gas Identified
Perfluorotributylamine - a chemical used in the electrical industry - has the potential to contribute significantly to global warming.
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Supervolcano 'even more colossal'
The supervolcano that lies beneath Yellowstone National Park in the US is far larger than was previously thought, scientists report.
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20 abandoned places in the world
The most strange and surreal abandoned places around the world.
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Three Things Humanity Needs to Do to Survive the Apocalypse
Annalee Newitz has a succinct, bittersweet message for the human race: Mass extinction is coming, and we're probably going to survive it. Whether it's manmade (a nuclear holocaust, anthropogenic climate change), earth-spawned (mega-volcanoes, a pandemic) or of the cosmic variety (radiation bombardment or an asteroid impact), there's eventually going to be catastrophe big enough to snuff out the vast majority of life on Earth.
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229 Million Children Are Officially Invisible
According to a new report, the births of one in three kids under the age of five have not been registered.
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1,900 Cyclones Whip the Arctic Every Year
Santa's reindeer must navigate through approximately 1,900 cyclones per year in the Arctic.
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If the Earth Stood Still
The following is not a futuristic scenario. It is not science fiction. It is a demonstration of the results of an extremely unlikely, yet intellectually fascinating query: What would happen if the earth stopped spinning?
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World experiences hottest November in 134 years
The finding was based on globally averaged land and surface temperatures last month, NOAA said in a statement. "The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for November 2013 was record highest for the 134-year period of record," NOAA said.
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Winter solstice: The sun stands still on Saturday
This coming Saturday marks one of the four major way stations on the Earth’s annual journey around the sun.
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Why Halley's Comet May Be Linked to Famine 1,500 Years Ago
A piece of the famous Halley's comet likely slammed into Earth in A.D. 536, blasting so much dust into the atmosphere the planet cooled considerably, a new study suggests. This dramatic climate shift is linked to drought and famine around the world.
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Moving from awareness to action
The research confirmed many of the global community's worst fears for climate—and showed that in some ways the situation was even worse than previously thought. Still, the major reports of 2013 were more than bearers of bad news. Let's look back at three ways research advanced the discussion on climate change in 2013, laying the groundwork for shifts from awareness to action
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Watch the ocean currents turn the Earth into a living Van Gogh
Who knew that our ocean currents were constantly painting Van Gogh's Starry Night across the planet? This visualization, created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, captures the surface currents that danced and twisted across Earth's oceans from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007 while transporting heat and carbon through the waters.
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Burning cows: Extreme weather and America’s perilous food supply
Two years of drought have devastated the plains. How climate change is already affecting America's breadbasket.
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2013 saw its share of extreme weather
Another year of extreme weather brought the Philippines a super typhoon and the United States the widest tornado ever observed, deadly wildfires, severe drought and killer floods.
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Not even the deepest sea creatures will escape climate change
Climate models are now predicting a "staggering" catastrophe for deep sea marine life .
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Australia saw hottest year in 2013
Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, officials have said.
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Earthquake Lights: Study Sheds Light on Mysterious Natural Phenomenon
Earthquake lights - a phenomenon that appears in the sky during or before seismic activity - are more likely to occur on or near rift environments.
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Scientists solve mystery of UFO lights appearing just before earthquakes
Electrical light shows known as earthquake lights may occur at rifts, or nearly vertical faults in the Earth’s crust, new research suggests.
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Canada and Russia battle for the Arctic
Canada announced its intention to lay claim to the North Pole, some 800 km north of Alert, Nunavut, the country’s—and the world’s—northernmost settlement. However, in this case it’s not the sheet of sea ice that’s important, rather what might lie four kilometres below. By some estimates, the high Arctic is home to 15 per cent of the globe’s undiscovered oil and as much as 30 per cent of its untapped natural gas.
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