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A sea turtle strapped with a GoPro just gave us a gorgeous underwater view of...
A bird's-eye view is so 2014.If you want to see what's happening under the sea, you need to consult with a turtle.Which is what the World Wildlife Fund did in their new video of the Great Barrier Reef,...
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Scientists think they’ve found a way to stop hunger
According to the World Food Program, some 795 million people – one in nine people on earth – don’t have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That will only get worse with the next global food...
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What has the potential to hurt global economy, food supply, and health? The answer is our oceans, and with the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference coming up, the Oceans 2015 Initiative wants the...
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McDonald's Filet-o-Fish might be causing some problems in Alaska
Did you grow up eating Filet-O-Fish from McDonald’s?Here’s something your parents probably didn’t tell you: McDonald’s Seattle-based fishing boats are endangering Native American tribes in Western...
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4 unbelievable chemical substances humans have discovered
Scientists create and discover new materials all the time. But few are so jaw-droppingly cool that they deserve to be recognized.From mindbendingly lightweight solids used by NASA to metals that melt...
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Ocean life looks unreal in this time-lapsed and hyper-focused video
It's rare that you get a close-up peek at the hidden wonders of the world. Especially when it's a glance at the multi-colored, pulsating creatures that live deep in the ocean's trenches.Sandro Bocci,...
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Hawaii is throwing up a Hail Mary to solve America's crippling plastic problem
Grocery shopping will never be the same — in Hawaii at least.On July 1, the state became the first in the US to ban plastic checkout bags, after Oahu joined the rest of the Hawaiian Islands in...
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Amazing footage of sharks swimming in boiling water around a volcano is...
Brennan Phillips and some colleagues were recently on an expedition to Kavachi volcano, an active underwater volcano near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. But they weren't prepared for what...
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Slimy green algae is taking over China's beaches for an alarming reason
Every summer for the past eight years, huge algae blooms have taken over the beaches near Qingdao, a city in the Shandong province of China.The bright green stuff has blanketed at least 13,500 square...
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Yellowstone is in trouble unless we can bring back the beavers
People say that wolf reintroduction saved Yellowstone.The story starts in the early-20th century when people killed the last of Yellowstone's wolves. After the wolves disappeared, people noticed that...
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This town has been burning for 50 years
In what seems like the plot to disaster movie, the quiet town of Centralia, Pennsylvania has endured a burning problem since 1962: It's been on fire, literally, for the past 53 years.And how this fire...
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Entire species found piled in a shipping crate
Last month, turtle experts thought there were fewer than 3,000 Philippine forest turtles left in the world. They were shocked when they found 3,800 more — stacked on top of each other in a cement tank...
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Meet the scientists who spend all day contemplating 'the end of human...
The San Juan Islands, in between the Washington State coastline and Vancouver Island, are some of the best places to see the renowned natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.Bald eagles and blue herons...
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UK Minister: There's a looming threat that should be taken as seriously as...
The threat of climate change needs to be assessed in the same comprehensive way as nuclear weapons proliferation, according to a UK foreign minister.Baroness Joyce Anelay, minister of state at the...
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FEMA is planning for an earthquake that would devastate the Pacific...
To the north of California's famous San Andreas fault is a less known, but possibly more deadly, fault line. The Cascadia subduction zone runs some 700 miles from northern California to Vancouver.In a...
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Business Insider is hiring a paid intern who loves to write about science
Business Insider's science team is looking for a paid editorial intern to join us this Fall.Interns at Business Insider aren't sent on coffee runs, or forced to spend their days filing or making...
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Alarming talk about an impending 'mini Ice Age' should be taken with a huge...
Wouldn’t it be great if scientists could make their minds up? One minute they’re telling us our planet is warming up due to human activity and we run the risk of potentially devastating environmental...
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Humans are adding hours of flight time to airplane travel every year
On an airplane, adding on a minute to your flight can mean the difference between getting stuck behind someone who has to hoist a heavy bag into the overhead storage compartment, or a window rather...
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6 super weird potential side effects of the California drought
Brown lawns, fallow fields and higher water bills are all the predictable outcomes of the California drought.The Golden State is in the midst of its driest period on record. But all that warm, dry...
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Richard Branson once offered $25 million for a brilliant plan to geoengineer...
Grand solutions to the world's ever-sharpening threat of climate change are usually met with a mix of skepticism and fear.Geoengineering — the practice of intervening with Earth's natural systems to...
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