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What it's like to be one of the last two people to cross the Arctic to the...
On May 7, 2014, after 53 days of struggling nearly 500 miles across the fractured ice of the Arctic Ocean while lugging two 317-pound sleds and fending off hungry polar bears, Arctic explorers Eric...
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The largest living thing on Earth is mostly hidden from view
The world's largest living thing is even bigger than a blue whale (the largest animal living now).Meet Armillaria ostoyae, or, as it's nicknamed, the Humongous Fungus.It's an organism that covers 2,385...
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Where Hillary Clinton stands on climate change
On November 8, Americans will have the chance to go to the polls and elect the next president of the United States.Both major parties, Republican and Democrat, will make their cases to voters in the...
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Where Donald Trump stands on climate change
On November 8, Americans will have the chance to go to the polls and elect the next president of the United States.Both major parties, Republican and Democrat, will make their cases to voters in the...
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A new kind of fake tree has spinning leaves that can generate wind power for...
Wind turbines’ potential to create energy has been widely demonstrated. If fact, the American Wind Energy Association suggests that 583,000 onshore turbines could power the entire United States.But...
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Seagrass is a powerful weapon for protecting coastal ecosystems, but we're...
Seagrass has been around since dinosaurs roamed the earth, it is responsible for keeping the world's coastlines clean and healthy, and supports many different species of animal, including humans. And...
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Tens of thousands of drowned livestock carcasses litter North Carolina after...
Hurricane Matthew was a devastating storm.More than 1,000 people died in Haiti, with much of the country still in need of aid. At least thirty-four people died because of the storm in the US, 19 of...
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The man behind the 'doomsday' vault that stores every known crop on the...
Buried in the side of a mountain in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault stores virtually every kind of seed.Cary Fowler, the man...
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A reusable water bottle that won over Starbucks' CEO could reach $100 million...
You’ve probably seen a S’well water bottle out in the wild, with its unmistakable, sleek, stainless-steel physique and boldly colored exterior, or perhaps faux marble or wood facade. If you haven’t,...
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Why you should add goat to your diet, according to a former chef
Whether it's in ice cream or cheese, goat's milk has become a popular cooking ingredient and a healthy alternative to cow's milk.But there's a problem. Each year, thousands of male goats are killed by...
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There's an intriguing reason why 99.9% of Americans have never tasted...
The blackcurrant, a small, tart berry, that when married with sugar can be made into jams, sauces, syrups, fruit drinks, and purple candy, is popular across Europe. But most Americans struggle to...
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Miners have uncovered a gigantic jade stone worth $170 million
A mammoth-sized chunk of jade stone has been unearthed in Burma, the southeast Asian country also known as Myanmar.The discovery was made in a remote mine in Kachin State in the north of the country....
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Donald Trump didn't face a single debate question about climate change during...
Wednesday night’s final presidential debate brought Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s total debate count to 14. And he managed to complete all of them — well over 20 hours of televised...
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Don't forget what happened the one time Trump and Clinton really debated...
Wednesday night's presidential debate marked the third and final chance for debate moderators to ask Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton questions about climate change. They didn't.As my colleague Dana...
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Air pollution in Africa may become worse than it is in China and India
Africa’s air pollution is causing more premature deaths than unsafe water or childhood malnutrition, and could develop into a health and climate crisis reminiscent of those seen in China and India, a...
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This brilliant 13-year-old figured out how to make clean energy using a...
Maanasa Mendu thinks she's cracked the code on how to make wind and solar energy affordable. On Tuesday, Mendu, a 13-year-old from Ohio, won the grand prize in the Discovery Education 3M Young...
View ArticleWhat US cities will look like under 25 feet of water
Coastal cities could see a rise in sea levels by as much as 4 ft by the end of the century. To help put a visual to the number, artist Nickolay Lamm created this series of simulations of US city...
View ArticleThere's a threat of snow in New York on Thursday
It's unseasonably cold in New York right now — 43 degrees Fahrenheit in Manhattan, with a high of 51 expected later in the day. That's about 8 degrees below average for October 26.And sleet, snow, and...
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One of the world's biggest archaeological mysteries is melting away before...
The story of an ancient population that mysteriously disappeared centuries ago might be melting away with the ice in Greenland.In a recent feature for the New Yorker, science writer Elizabeth Kolbert...
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Renewable energy now exceeds all other forms of new power generation
Last year was a huge turning point for clean power, with renewable energy surpassing coal to become the largest source of power capacity in the world for the first time, according to a new report.And...
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