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Learn about animals, weather and natural disasters, alternative energy, environmental politics and space.

  • Cicadas continue East Coast march

    Thu, May 16, 2013 10:28 AM

    by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    Scientists expect this brood's population to be up to 30 billion this year.

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  • Amazing video brings Antarctic to life

    Tue, May 07, 2013 4:30 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    The icebreaker ship eventually met a colony of penguins that are included in the video as well.

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  • Plants thrive with 'words' of encouragement from each other

    Tue, May 07, 2013 4:20 PM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet

    Plants already communicate via chemicals, but it appears that an 'unknown mechanism' may allow them to also use sounds.

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  • Worker camps from natural gas boom cause headaches for local officials

    Tue, May 07, 2013 3:26 PM by Mountaineer News Service

    Wheeling, West Virginia has 14 campgrounds, and most of them house out-of-state men who work at fracking sites. Some of these labor camps were set up without permits, and others have been cited for improper sewage disposal and violence.

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  • It's time to get serious about going to Mars, says NASA

    Tue, May 07, 2013 2:52 PM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com

    Landing humans on Mars would be a multi-stage process, and there's not much time if it's to be done by 2030.

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  • Human evolution aided by eating antelope brains, study suggests

    Tue, May 07, 2013 12:52 PM by Melissa Breyer

    New fossils also show earliest evidence of hunting and scavenging by our human ancestors.

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  • Forests flee, dump CO2 as climate warms

    Tue, May 07, 2013 12:28 PM by Russell McLendon

    An array of ecosystems will relocate due to global warming, but new research suggests the northward flight of boreal forests could be especially harmful.

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  • Chris Christie had secret lap-band surgery

    Tue, May 07, 2013 11:14 AM by Melissa Breyer

    The New Jersey governor tells the media he underwent the weight-reduction procedure earlier this year for his family, not his political ambitions.

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  • Baby duck can't stay awake

    Tue, May 07, 2013 10:42 AM

    Video: Dexter the duckling is doing his best to stay awake. Maybe you feel the same way?

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  • For companies, sustainability and innovation often go hand-in-hand

    Tue, May 07, 2013 10:28 AM by Melissa Hincha-Ownby

    From a policy against left turns to a peer-to-peer app that can replace taxis, find out how companies are addressing some of today’s most pressing environmental and social issues.

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  • Mongolia gets stolen dinosaur bones back

    Tue, May 07, 2013 10:11 AM by Wynne Parry, LiveScience

    Smuggled fossils have also been found in England and are being returned as well.

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  • Bats mop up nectar with hairy, engorged tongue

    Tue, May 07, 2013 9:41 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    The stiff tongue hairs help the bats to drink water more quickly than they could otherwise.

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  • Eclipse turns sun into 'ring of fire' this week

    Mon, May 06, 2013 1:46 PM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com

    Even though 95 percent of the sun will be covered by the moon at the eclipse's peak, the sky will not be noticeably darker to the naked eye.

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  • Med students taught bedside manner using horses

    Mon, May 06, 2013 12:27 PM

    Video: For America’s next generation of doctors, bedside manner can fall by the wayside in the first few years of medical school. But one doctor in Arizona is hoping to change that by offering a first-of-its-kind class using horses to instill compassion.

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  • Chris Christie squishes spider in front of school kids, PETA responds

    Mon, May 06, 2013 10:37 AM by Melissa Breyer

    A group of fourth-graders cheered and giggled; PETA suggests the New Jersey governor wasn't thinking.

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  • See photos of amazing solar eruption

    Mon, May 06, 2013 9:58 AM by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com

    The sun kicked off the month of May with spectacular explosions, none of which were aimed at Earth.

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