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Learn about Earth's biodiversity and natural resources. Plus: Explore national parks and state wilderness areas.

  • Unbeelievable: Giant hive falls through man's bathroom ceiling

    Fri, May 17, 2013 1:30 PM by Shea Gunther

    One Redditor was really lucky not to be using the bathroom when a large beehive fell through his bathroom ceiling.

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  • Melting glaciers responsible for one-third of sea-level rise

    Thu, May 16, 2013 2:20 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    Antarctic glaciers lost the least ice overall because spots on the continent melting rapidly were offset by other regions gaining ice.

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  • The weirdest maars on Earth (and that's not a typo)

    Thu, May 16, 2013 10:11 AM by Becky Oskin, LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet

    The bizarre lava flows draw scientists who study other planets, looking for analogues to eruptions on Mars.

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  • Converting landfills to nature preserves doesn't erase their negative impact

    Wed, May 15, 2013 1:58 PM by Shea Gunther

    There is a danger in fluffy-happy stories about landfill turn-arounds because they make us forget about the bigger problem: Waste.

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  • Clean, cheap method for extracting gold discovered by accident

    Wed, May 15, 2013 12:56 PM by Melissa Breyer

    Researchers stumble upon a method that could replace toxic cyanide with plain old cornstarch.

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  • What's so great about the Great Lakes?

    Wed, May 15, 2013 12:21 PM by Melissa Breyer

    The latest environmental report on the Great Lakes isn't very encouraging — and here's why we should care.

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  • Mount Everest is melting

    Wed, May 15, 2013 9:12 AM by Becky Oskin, LiveScience

    Researchers suspect that the glacial melting in the Everest region is due to global warming, but they have not yet established a firm connection.

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  • Beautiful plankton blooms seen from space

    Tue, May 14, 2013 11:35 AM by Douglas Main, LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet

    Phytoplankton blooms can absorb about one-third of the carbon dioxide humans emit into the air each year.

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  • Scientists measure LA's carbon footprint

    Tue, May 14, 2013 10:10 AM

    Video: A project at CalTech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is trying to measure the carbon footprint of human activity in the Los Angeles basin.

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  • Was Darwin wrong about coral atolls?

    Tue, May 14, 2013 10:10 AM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet

    A new study shows that coral reef-building is more complex than Darwin thought.

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  • Carrizo Plain: Exploring 'the Serengeti of the West'

    Carrizo Plain: Exploring 'the Serengeti of the West'

    Mon, May 13, 2013 2:26 PM

    Carrizo Plain National Monument — which is hot and dry for much of the year — is a bountiful but fragile ecosystem in California.

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  • World's most beautiful eternal flame reveals new gas source

    Mon, May 13, 2013 9:29 AM by Douglas Main, LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet

    The flame may indicate that the U.S. has more shale gas options than was originally believed.

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  • Incurable disease threatens U.S. citrus crop

    Sun, May 12, 2013 11:40 AM by Marc Lallanilla, LiveScience

    A tree affected by citrus greening will lose its leaves, while the tree's fruit fails to mature, falling to the ground prematurely before the tree slowly dies.

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  • Ice-free Arctic? It's closer than you think

    Fri, May 10, 2013 10:13 AM by Denise Chow, LiveScience

    2.2 to 3.6 million years ago the Arctic was a forested landscape, and scientists are hoping this data will help with climate change models.

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  • Google Timelapse reveals an altered Earth

    Thu, May 09, 2013 3:57 PM by Russell McLendon

    The search giant has teamed up with NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to create a stunning time-lapse look at humanity's effect on Earth over 28 years.

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