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Your Flights Are About To Get A Lot Bumpier
Transatlantic airline passengers might expect to stay seated with their seatbelts securely fastened more often in the future, according to new research that finds climate change could lead to more...
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Engineers Can Use This New Theory To Build Sprinting Robots
By studying how legged animals move across loose ground, like sand or gravel, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology were able to design a small robot that can run across these squishy,...
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Rat-Sized Snails Are Taking Over South Florida
Florida can't seem to catch a break. First it was giant pythons, now its snails as big as rats that are menacing residents of the sunshine state as the large creatures chomp their way through...
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Photos Of The Giant Snail That's Menacing Florida
New York City has rats; Florida has snails. An invasive species called the giant African land snail has been steadily taking over South Florida's Miami-Dade County ever since one was spotted by a...
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People Are Surfing On Michigan's Rivers
Michigan is seeing crazy amounts of flooding this week — and some people are taking advantage of the record-breaking river levels.Joe Matulis, who works at Matuli Paddle Surf in East Lansing, Mich.,...
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Powerful Pictures Of Earth Being Destroyed
It's Earth Day!The tradition of honoring our special blueberry on April 22 has been alive since 1970. Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin organized the first Earth Day 43 years ago in response to the...
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Magnified Photos Of Earth's Most Underappreciated Animals
We all have our favorite animals — these are usually soft, cuddly, and are able to show affection with great big licks.The beauty of smaller, less fluffy animals, like bees and flies, however, is often...
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Mysterious 'Rogue Wave' Washed Away Four Fishermen
The U.S. Coast Guard announced on Sunday (April 21) that it was suspending the search for four fishermen whose boat is believed to have been destroyed by a rogue wave.The 50-foot Nite Owl vessel was...
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We Are Four Months Into 2013 And The Earth Has Already Had Five...
Weather Underground meteorologist Dr. Jeff Masters points us to the latest study from insurance broker AON Benfeld noting there have now been five weather events that have cost us at least $1...
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Why All Of New York City Smells Like Sex These Days
This spring, New Yorkers will have their noses assaulted by an unpleasant odor coming from the army of white-blossom covered trees that line many of the city's streets. These flowers, though lovely in...
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Freaky Air-Breathing Fish Threaten To Invade Central Park
New York City officials are worried that a freaky air-breathing, land-walking (supposedly), invasive species of fish is set to invade Central Park's waterways, potentially wreaking havoc on the local...
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Stunning Space Image Of A Volcano Spewing Ash
This is what a volcanic eruption looks like from space. This photo was taken by NASA's LDCM satellite as it floated over the Indonesia's Paluweh volcano on April 29, 2013.The LDCM is NASA's eighth...
View ArticleHere Are All The Problems With The Wall Street Journal's Latest Pro-Global...
The Wall Street Journal posted an article Thursday titled "Harrison H. Schmitt and William Happer: In Defense of Carbon Dioxide" in which they claim that raising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere...
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The First Cicadas Have Been Spotted On The Upper West Side
They're here!The first 17-year cicadas from the group known as Brood II were spotted on the Upper West Side on Wednesday, according to the "Swarmageddon" map created by WNYC's RadioLab. A handful of...
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There's Now More Carbon Dioxide In Earth's Atmosphere Than At Any Other Time...
Yesterday, carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere reached a major milestone: a daily average above 400 parts per million. The new high — the highest in human history — was recorded at two separate...
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Antarctic Explorers Are Heading Into Dangerous Territory In Perpetual...
It's been a while since we've checked in with The Coldest Journey team, the five-man crew attempting the first crossing of the Antarctic during its winter season. Without expedition leader Sir Ranulph...
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Mount Everest Is Melting
Earth's global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, researchers said today (May 14) at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico.Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have...
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A Fabled Lost City Might Be Hiding Under This Remote Honduras Jungle
New pictures claim to show the possible architectural remains of Ciudad Blanca, a mythical "White City" rumored to be buried somewhere deep in the forests of eastern Honduras.The 3-D maps are a...
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Visit The World's Largest Lake Made Of Asphalt
The Caribbean island of Trinidad is home to the world's largest deposit of natural asphalt, called Pitch Lake. The surface of the lake is a mostly solid carpet of asphalt that can be walked on,...
View ArticleGrapefruit-Sized Hail Smashed Down On Texas In Deadly Storm
On Wednesday night, hail the size of grapefruits rained down on Granbury, Texas, right before as many as three tornadoes rolled through the town, resulting in at least six confirmed deaths, CBS Local...
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