 Planet Earth may have 'tilted' to keep its balance August 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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Imagine a shift in the Earth so profound that it could force our entire planet to spin on its side after a few million years, tilting it so far that Alaska would sit at the equator. Princeton scientists have ... | |
 Yellow submarine: Unmanned sub studies ocean July 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Far out in the Atlantic, a little yellow submarine is trying to slip from current to current, gliding across the ocean beneath the waves. The unmanned sub is nearing the halfway mark in its effort ... | |
 Fires Burning Near Big Sur, California July 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Fires near Big Sur, Calif., continued to burn unchecked when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image on Sunday, June ... | |
 The Tunguska Event--100 Years Later July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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The year is 1908, and it's just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does he know, in a few moments, he will be hurled from his chair ... | |
Computer models show major climate shift as a result of closing ozone hole June 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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A new study led by Columbia University researchers has found that the closing of the ozone hole, which is projected to occur sometime in the second half of the 21st century, may significantly affect climate change in the ... | |
Surprise quake shows Japan's vulnerability: experts June 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A powerful earthquake in Japan struck at a previously unknown faultline, raising new alarm that the dreaded "Big One" could hit anywhere in the country, experts said Sunday. | |
Organizing an Earth Systems Science Agency July 03, 2008 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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In an article published today in the journal Science, a group of former senior federal officials call for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems Science Agency (ESSA) to meet the unprecedented environmental ... | |
Geologists Provide New Evidence for Reason Behind Rise of Life in Cambrian Period December 07, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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Geologists have uncovered evidence in the oil fields of Oman that explains how Earth could suddenly have changed 540 million years ago to favor the evolution of the single-celled life forms to the multicellular forms we know ... | |
 Ancient mineral shows early Earth climate tough on continents June 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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A new analysis of ancient minerals called zircons suggests that a harsh climate may have scoured and possibly even destroyed the surface of the Earth's earliest continents. | |
Mystery of infamous 'New England Dark Day' solved by 3 rings June 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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At noon, it was black as night. It was May 19, 1780 and some people in New England thought judgment day was at hand. Accounts of that day, which became known as 'New England's Dark Day,' include mentions of midday meals by ... | |
Quake warning system in action in Japan June 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
The world's first earthquake early warning system was used in Japan on Saturday, giving residents a few seconds to prepare for aftershocks that followed a strong quake. | |
 New study sheds light on mysterious 'supershear' quakes June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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A French-Turkish team of seismologists on Thursday said they had found evidence about the impacts of a rare but extremely violent earthquake called a supershear. | |
Researchers test sediment-scrubbing technology in NH river June 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In a mud flat at the edge of the Cocheco River, just outside downtown Dover, scientists from the University of New Hampshire's Contaminated Sediments Center are testing an innovative way to treat polluted sediment in coastal ... | |
 Diamonds reveal deep source of platinum deposits June 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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The world's richest source of platinum and related metals is an enigmatic geological structure in South Africa known as the Bushveld Complex. This complex of ancient magmas is known to have formed some two ... | |
 If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does Climate Change? June 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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There are roughly 42 million square kilometers of forest on Earth, a swath that covers almost a third of the land surface, and those wooded environments play a key role in both mitigating and enhancing global ... | |
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