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Warming, Melting Sea Ice Threaten Antarctic’s Emperor Penguins
The Emperor penguin’s future is looking bleak if global temperatures continue to rise and melt sea ice, scientists have...
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Ancient Antarctica Was Warm Enough for Vegetation
Ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected, a new study has found. The climate was suitable...
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You Owe Your Life to Rock
Thank goodness for granite. If not for the formation and subsequent erosion of large quantities of metal-rich granite on...
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Analysis of Global Fire Risk Shows Big, Fast Changes Ahead
Climate change is widely expected to disrupt future fire patterns around the world, with some regions, such as the...
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Pollution Makes Carnivorous Plants Go Vegetarian
The common sundew drosera rotundifolia grows in rain-fed bogs across much of northern Europe. These habitats have few nutrients,...
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Nations at Odds on Rio+20 Earth Summit
The final round of negotiations leading up to next week’s Rio+20 summit begins with countries very much at odds...
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Human Fingerprints on Ocean Warming Detected
Natural fluctuations alone do not explain warming in the upper layers of the planet’s oceans, confirms a new computer...
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Maybe a Cosmic Impact Wiped Out Mammoths After All
A study of rocks in Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Syria provides powerful support for the theory that a major...
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Rio+20 Earth Summit: Leaked Draft Reveals Conflict Among Countries
The latest draft text that 180 governments are expected to sign up to at the end of the Rio+20...
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Astonishing Algal Bloom Found in Arctic
NASA scientists say they’ve made a discovery in the Arctic Ocean ‘as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest...