A powerful earthquake has struck New Zealand’s South Island, according to US geological experts. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-7.5 quake hit 59 miles (95km) from Christchurch, which is still recovering from the 2011 earthquake that killed 185 people and destroyed many buildings. According to the New Zealand Herald, people from as far away as Wellington and Dunedin felt the quake. It said sirens could be heard in Wellington and that “people are on the street crying”.

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Submitted on November 13th 2016 by gladsdotter with 3 comments and with 5 Related Links:

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The medieval ship lay more than a half-mile down at the bottom of the Black Sea, its masts, timbers and planking undisturbed in the darkness for seven or eight centuries. Lack of oxygen in the icy depths had ruled out the usual riot of creatures that feast on sunken wood. This fall, a team of explorers lowered a robot on a long tether, lit up the wreck with bright lights and took thousands of high-resolution photos. A computer then merged the images into a detailed portrait.

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Submitted on November 13th 2016 by mariogi

The killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized light, which could lead to a breakthrough in detecting cancer.

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Submitted on November 15th 2016 by rti9

A group of young Americans is suing the government for inaction on climate change. As November 10, the suit cleared a major hurdle, and, at COP22 in Marrakech, a lot of people are celebrating.

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Submitted on November 12th 2016 by gladsdotter with 2 comments

A world greatly concerned about how the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president could stall global climate policy received a major dose of welcome news Sunday, when scientists published a projection suggesting that for the third straight year, global carbon dioxide emissions did not increase much in 2016. The news comes from the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists who measure how much carbon dioxide humans emit each year, as well as how much is subsequently absorbed by plants, land surfaces and oceans.

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Submitted on November 14th 2016 by zyery with 1 comments

Award-winning photographer Joshua Holko’s specialty is shooting the landscape and wildlife in the Polar Regions. He tells us how he survives in the harshest conditions and avoids polar bear attacks.

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Submitted on November 13th 2016 by Appaloosa with 2 comments

It doesn't get much better than a narwhal. These bizarre creatures are a species of toothed whale, and the males have evolved an extra long left canine tooth that can grow up to 2.7 metres (9 feet) long, bursting through the upper lip and...

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Submitted on November 11th 2016 by kxh

The UN has pledged to ensure healthy, productive oceans – but how can this be achieved when demand for fish has never been higher

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Submitted on November 16th 2016 by kxh

Former vice president and longtime environmental activist Al Gore campaigned hard against Donald Trump, saying his election “would take us toward a climate catastrophe.” But now that Trump will soon be occupying the Oval Office, Gore is extending an olive branch, saying in an online posting this week that he will do everything he can to work with the incoming administration to ensure that the United States remains a leader in combating the harmful effects of global warming.

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Submitted on November 11th 2016 by drunkenninja with 13 comments and with 2 Related Links:

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Hundreds of people join a dog owner as he takes his beloved but poorly whippet Walnut on a final walk before the pet is put down.

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Submitted on November 12th 2016 by drunkenninja

Meteorites might have delivered some of the basic building blocks, but there are still some missing pieces to the puzzle. By Elizabeth Tasker.

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Submitted on November 14th 2016 by AdelleChattre

Something left over from the Cambrian explosion?

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Submitted on November 11th 2016 by kxh

Chinese construction workers excavating bedrock recently made an explosive discovery when they inadvertently unearthed an unusual new species of feathered dinosaur. The animal lived about 66 to 72 million years ago, right before a giant impact wiped out large dinosaurs in a catastrophic mass extinction. (Find out what happened on the day the dinosaurs died.)

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Submitted on November 10th 2016 by wildcard

A bizarre creature with 13 legs and a head that expands like a balloon was spotted by a diver near Bali who wants to know what it is and if it’s safe to dive again. By Paul Seaburn.

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Submitted on November 11th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

When frightened they jump, often directly at what frightens them.

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Submitted on November 16th 2016 by gladsdotter with 5 comments

Laser scanning in Borneo has revealed 50 trees that break previous records. The giants are about as tall as five sperm whales stacked end to end.

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Submitted on November 11th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

French philosopher René Descartes believed that the pineal gland, a tiny button of neurons located in the depth of our brain, was the seat of the soul. By Julien Benoit.

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Submitted on November 16th 2016 by AdelleChattre

What the media isn’t telling you. By Admin Tam.

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Submitted on November 11th 2016 by AdelleChattre

Efforts to restore American chestnut trees to their rightful place in the North American forest ecosystem are progressing, although progress has come at a slower pace than once expected, according to researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, who explain they have reached a pivotal point.

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Submitted on November 12th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

ZZT developer and Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney has reportedly paid $15 million to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to permanently protect 7,000 acres of undeveloped land in his home state of North Carolina. This donation, earmarked as a "conservation easement" (which typically require landowners to forfeit the right to develop, subdivide, or otherwise interfere with the preservation of a natural landscape), is a nice example of how a successful member of the game industry might invest some of their wealth in a way that benefits others.

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Submitted on November 10th 2016 by gottlieb