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Tue, Mar 26, 2013 10:43 AM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet
Once thought to trigger earthquakes, scientists have discovered that foreshocks actually detail how some earthquakes begin.
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Fri, Mar 22, 2013 4:36 PM by Russell McLendon
The list includes two natural Western landscapes, two sites dedicated to icons of African-American history, and the first National Park Service unit in Delaware.
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Fri, Mar 22, 2013 9:51 AM by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience
The eruptions would also have released large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, causing global warming.
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Thu, Mar 21, 2013 11:47 AM by Lilit Marcus
For the California town where the poisoned wells became a Hollywood story, a happy ending was only in the movies.
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Thu, Mar 21, 2013 10:19 AM by John Platt
Two years after a rival football fan poisoned the oaks at Toomer's Corner, officials decide that the trees can't be saved.
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Wed, Mar 20, 2013 12:04 PM by Catie Leary
The spring snowfall dumped nearly half a foot of snow and dispersed much of the city's infamous air pollution.
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Wed, Mar 20, 2013 11:40 AM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet
In continued efforts to track changes in glacial and sea ice, NASA's IceBridge plane has begun collecting data in Greenland.
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Tue, Mar 19, 2013 8:40 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience
When hunters kill primates for their meat, the animals no longer disperse the seeds of some fruit- and nut-bearing trees, and wind-dispersed seedlings take root instead.
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Tue, Mar 19, 2013 12:35 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
Fragments of a tectonic plate that slid under the North American mantle eons ago were found to make up parts of California and Mexico.
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Mon, Mar 18, 2013 12:54 PM by Marc Lallanilla, LiveScience
Terrible environmental conditions and an unyielding government has put China in dire danger of poisoning its enormous population and the land around it.
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Mon, Mar 18, 2013 11:00 AM by Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet
The trench is 'a big hole' that all sorts of sediment and organisms just fall into.
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Mon, Mar 18, 2013 9:04 AM by John Platt
The school plans to fund a study on the effects of fracking by allowing the controversial extraction process to take place on 8,000 acres in Cumberland Forest.
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Sat, Mar 16, 2013 8:20 AM by Live Science Staff
Scientists discovered hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils, including 4 kinds that had never been found before in the region.
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Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:53 PM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet
Sound is so fundamental to life that some scientists now think there's a kernel of truth to folklore that plants can communicate.
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Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:08 PM
Video: Mitch Seavey is the oldest person to win the Iditarod trail sled dog race, a 1,000-mile event. His son, Dallas, became the youngest winner in history after winning last year at age 25.
