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

  • Macro photography explores nature's tiny details

    Macro photography explores nature's tiny details

    Tue, Feb 19, 2013 11:56 AM by Jerry James Stone

    With extremely close-up images of the outdoor world, photographer Sharon Johnstone discovers beautiful colors and abstract compositions.

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  • How NASA is tracking air pollution in California farm country

    Fri, Feb 15, 2013 1:36 PM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet

    The geography of Central Valley — where much of the country's vegetables, fruits, nuts and meat is produced — resembles a bath tub, meaning aerosols and other pollutants get trapped there.

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  • Thinning ice is changing Arctic ecosystem

    Fri, Feb 15, 2013 11:05 AM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet

    Researchers think the algae clumps grew better and faster in 2012 because the Arctic's thinning ice made more sunlight available underneath the ice floes.

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  • Insects: The most eco-friendly meat? [Infographic]

    Thu, Feb 14, 2013 5:16 PM

    Put down that hamburger, pick up a cricket burger, and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • Virus vs. bacteria: The invisible war raging in our oceans

    Wed, Feb 13, 2013 2:14 PM by Wynne Parry, LiveScience

    SAR11 microbes are most abundant in the warm waters of rotating ocean currents, where they can account for as much as 40 percent of plankton cells.

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  • College kids get T. rex anatomy all wrong

    Tue, Feb 12, 2013 7:20 PM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    The average student's idea of T. rex more closely matches Barney the purple dinosaur, standing upright instead of pitched all the way forward.

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  • Thirsty Middle East is exhausting its water supply

    Tue, Feb 12, 2013 4:20 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    The vast depletion of groundwater could spell trouble in a region that already has many conflicts over water.

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  • Ozone hole shrinks to record low

    Tue, Feb 12, 2013 2:48 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    Antarctica is particularly vulnerable to ozone-depleting substances, because high winds cause a vortex of cold air to circulate over the continent.

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  • Corporations, investors 'grabbing' land and water overseas

    Tue, Feb 12, 2013 12:06 PM by Environmental Health News

    There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.

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  • Environmental lessons lurk in 19th-century cemeteries

    Tue, Feb 12, 2013 10:56 AM by Wynne Parry, LiveScience

    A historian finds inspiration for the modern environmental movement in the garden-style cemeteries of the 19th century.

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  • Spectacular splintering of Perito Moreno glacier caught on film

    Tue, Feb 12, 2013 10:09 AM by Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet

    A tourist was able to photograph the epic collapse of Patagonian ice bridge Perito Moreno into an icy lake below.

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  • Sunlit permafrost unleashes carbon at faster pace

    Mon, Feb 11, 2013 4:16 PM by Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet

    UV rays break carbon and stimulate bacteria that turns the carbon into carbon dioxide.

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  • 6 cool facts about snow

    Mon, Feb 11, 2013 1:25 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    From huge snow dunes to the shape and uniqueness of snowflakes, here's some handy snow trivia.

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  • Japan earthquake unleashed surprising torrent of energy

    Fri, Feb 08, 2013 11:07 AM by Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience

    The new findings may result in scientists being better able to predict when earthquakes may occur.

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  • Can Redwood clones reverse years of logging?

    Fri, Feb 08, 2013 9:49 AM

    Video: For years, the tallest trees in the world have been cut down – its population decimated. Today, only a small fraction of the majestic trees remain, many of them protected in national parks. But a scientist is hoping to regrow the Redwoods, and reverse some of the damage.

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