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After nearly two years of existence, the landmass has nearly vanished beneath the waves.
The achievement represents the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate from an ice core.
A spatial analysis of the park's trees revealed its vulnerability to wildfires, especially near infrastructure.
Two people have died and over 1,000 structures have been destroyed.
Data from on high reveals the stark differences in temperature across the continental United States.
Parched vegetation and Santa Ana winds are catalyzing extremely hazardous firestorms across L.A. and beyond.
30,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders.
Billions of tons of carbon are being locked away in the stuff we build, use, and throw out—but it won’t stay trapped forever.
The Axial Seamount is gonna blow, scientists say. The only question is when.
Swaths of the central, northern, and eastern United States will face subzero temperatures, freezing rain, snow, and ice.
A menace in the 80s action-comedy flick, Burt later became an "ambassador for crocodile education," his caretakers wrote on Facebook.
A company is betting on aluminum to solve K-cups’ sustainability problem. Experts say it’s complicated.
The end of the Cretaceous period saw disastrous geological and astronomical events, but researchers say that one in particular is to blame for the mass extinction.
After escaping the grips of a marine vortex, an iceberg bigger than Rhode Island is heading north.
Why did some species, including ancient humans, cross the Bering Land Bridge between modern-day Siberia and Alaska during the last Ice Age? The picture has only gotten more complex.
Climate change is wrecking the delicate balance between groundwater and ocean water, according to new research.
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