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Earth News looks at rocks, global warming and extreme weather to get the lowdown on what the Earth is trying to tell us.
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Troubled Freighter Drifts Toward Great Barrier Reef
A broken-down cargo ship was drifting towards Australia's Great Barrier Reef Saturday, with fears of major damage if it were to run aground at the World Heritage-listed site.
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Tyrannosaur Skeleton For Sale, But Ownership Is Questioned
Mongolia is raising concerns that a rare Tyrannosaur specimen now on auction in New York City may have left the country illegally.
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Tiny Deep-Sea Life Eats Dinosaur-Era Meals
Deep ocean microorganisms are subsisting on nutrients first laid down when dinosaurs still walked the Earth.
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Small Earthquakes May Cause Surprisingly Big Tsunamis
Mysterious small tremors in the most earthquake-prone areas on Earth may be the cause of surprisingly large tsunamis.
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Clean Up This Fracking Mess!
A study found a decrease in the percentage of the number of violations issued to fracking sites in Pennsylvania.
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Monster Sunspot's Flare Strong Enough to Confuse Satellites
The flare triggered a radiation storm intense enough to also cause radio blackouts.
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Hot Summer Projected for Much of U.S.
No relief in sight for drought-stricken areas of the country.
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The Stinkiest Places on Earth: Photos
Tour some of nature?s most putrid, pungent places, nasty-to-the-nostrils nooks, and foul, fetid funky towns.
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Some U.S. Fisheries Rebounding
New U.S. government figures show fisheries improvement, but New England remains cause for concern.
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Wanna Learn Marine Biology? There's an App for That
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary released the app, which features more than 1,300 images of animals.
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Breathtaking View of Earth by Russian Satellite: Big Vid
A new photo of Earth from space highlights the striking beauty and intensely rich colors of our home planet.
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Ancient 'Loch Ness Monster' Suffered Arthritis
Ancient creatures resembling stout-necked Loch Ness Monsters apparently developed arthritis in their monster jaws, revealing that even such lethal killers could suffer from and eventually succumb to diseases of old age.
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Wildfire Season Off to a Burning Start
In Arizona, 200 firefighters and 11 aircraft are battling 4,600 acres of wildfire in the Mazatzal Wilderness.
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Fault in Alaska a Tsunami-Maker Candidate
One particular section of the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone has not ruptured since 1788, and geodesy measurements reveal that strain is accumulating rapidly.
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Turning Down Heat May Save Much More Than Expected
Consumers could potentially be saving more than 5 percent (about $10) for each degree they turn the thermostat down.
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Humans Stripping Earth of Its Resources
Humanity is essentially using the resources of one and a half Earths every year.
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This Week in Discovery News: What Did Hitler and Dinosaurs Have in Common?
This Week in Discovery News we talk about the fiber-rich diet of farting dinosaurs, Hitler's tendency to want semen injections and use cocaine, plus views of last Saturday's supermoon from around the world!
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Top 10 Most Troubled U.S. Rivers
The Potomac River is the country's most endangered waterway.
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Sunscreen in the Sky To Curb Climate Change?
A British scientist offers an improbable-seeming scheme to reduce global warming.
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Lucky Strike: Lightning Brings Seismic Surprise
A stormy afternoon in Germany turned into a rare seismic experiment.
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