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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wed, Feb 06, 2013 4:59 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience
New research shows that man first tamed the olive tree between 8,000 and 6,000 years ago in the Middle East.
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Wed, Feb 06, 2013 12:25 PM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet
The earthquake hit at a depth of almost 18 miles and was the second largest earthquake in the Solomon Islands region in almost 40 years
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Wed, Feb 06, 2013 11:40 AM by Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet
A study suggests that discovering and recording all of Earth's biodiversity may not be as difficult as previously thought.
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Tue, Feb 05, 2013 5:29 PM by Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet
Internal waves can travel long distances, but rarely does evidence of their existence surface — unless you're looking down from space.
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Tue, Feb 05, 2013 12:53 PM by Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet
The British Antarctica Survey has just completed its new Halley VI research station, which has set up camp on the Brunt Ice Shelf in the icy continent.
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Tue, Feb 05, 2013 11:49 AM by Marc Lallanilla, Life's Little Mysteries
Despite claims, the research team brought no physical evidence of their purported creature to the surface.
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Mon, Feb 04, 2013 3:30 PM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience
The prints are being stored at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center until further scientific study is possible.