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Pat Robertson: ‘Climate Change is a Joke
Televangelist Pat Robertson was in rare form during the Jan.7 broadcast of the 700 Club, lashing out at John Kerry’s attempts at Middle East peace and insisting climate change is just a joke. During the show, Robertson warned that Kerry’s attempt at an Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation deal...
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Check what major city is the furthest away from where you live.
Ever wonder what the furthest city is from you? This neat tool allows you to enter in the closest city with a population of 100,000 residents, to be used to locate the furthest city from you.
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Gravity satellite probes deep Earth
Europe's Goce gravity satellite has provided striking new visualisations of the Earth's deep interior.
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Warming 'killing penguin chicks'
Penguin chicks in Argentina are dying as a direct consequence of climate change, according to new research.
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Watch 63 years of climate change in one horrifying GIF
Global warming is still the topic of much debate, but a short video posted recently by NASA is fairly convincing. The 15-second animation, which was posted by NASA last week and picked up on Tuesda...
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Mars and Orion over Monument Valley
Welcome to The World At Night. Sharing the night sky seen around the world, this view from Monument Valley, USA includes a picturesque foreground of famous buttes. Buttes are composed of hard rock left behind after water eroded away the surrounding soft rock. The two buttes on the image left are known as the Mittens, while Merrick Butte is on the right. Recorded in 2007 December, planet Mars is at the left of the skyscape, a glowing beacon of orange that is the brightest object in the frame.
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A Hypnotic Visualization Of The Polar Vortex From Space
Here on terrestrial Earth, the polar vortex is making all of our lives miserable, from frostbite-inducing chills in the North, to snow and ice blanketing Florida, to drivers in Atlanta getting stuck in traffic for 22 hours and comparing the scene to a zombie movie. As visualized from space, though, the polar vortex is a beautiful, panchromatic cyclone of endlessly flowing eddies and currents. It's mesmerizing.
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Here's Why Scientists Are Shooting Rockets at an Aurora
The best way to study the Northern Lights? Travel to Alaska with a big rocket loaded with scientific instruments.
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Arctic icy lakes lose thickness
The ubiquitous shallow icy lakes that dominate Alaska's Arctic coastal plain have undergone a significant change in recent decades.
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Greenland glacier hits record speed
The Jakobshavn Glacier - widely thought to have spawned the iceberg that sank the Titanic - is moving about four times faster than it was in the 1990s.
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Woolly mammoth diet mystery solved by DNA analysis
How did huge mammals like woolly mammoths sustain themselves when they roamed the Arctic during the last ice age? A DNA analysis has solved that mystery and helps explain the rise and fall of giant mammals.
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50 Natural Phenomena That Totally Boggle The Mind
The world we live in is a truly fantastic place, with its gorgeous underground crystals bigger than elephants, ghostly auroras that dance across the skies, ingenious frogs that freeze their blood to survive, and many, many other incredible natural ph...
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"Aurora in All Colors"
Strong aurora display over Fairbanks, Alaska, March ,2013.
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Freezing Out the Bigger Picture
What seems like unusually cold weather in the Northeast is still milder than what was normal a few decades ago, but it has stoked confusion and given fodder to global warming skeptics.
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In 2014, Venus brightest around February 15
What's that very bright star or planet in the east before sunrise now? It's the planet Venus, now near its time of greatest brilliancy.
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Jet stream 'may be changing'
New research suggests that the main system that helps determine the weather over Northern Europe and North America may be changing
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Snowiest Place on Earth
Few people know it as the snowiest place on earth. But that's exactly what Sukayu Onsen, Japan is: 40-foot snow canyons, blinding blizzards, and the northernmost primates, Japanese snow monkeys. See it all in this episode of Destination Uncharted.
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Speeding, 900-foot Asteroid to Zoom (Safely) by Earth Monday
An asteroid the size of nearly three football fields will zoom past Earth on Monday .
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Monster asteroid to whiz by Earth
Earth gets a close encounter Monday evening as an asteroid as big as three football fields whizzes by at 27,000 mph. The asteroid isn't a threat — it will miss the Earth by 2 million miles. Dubbed 2000 EM26, it's about 885 feet in diameter
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Why New Semi Trucks Are a Win for the Environment
Quick, what's better for the environment: Replacing your Prius for a Tesla, or trading in a fuel-swilling semi truck for a more efficient one? Well, an electric car seems the obvious choice. But heavy-duty trucks use a lot of gas, and America uses a lot of trucks, which means efficiency gains can have a huge impact.
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