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Is climate action a lost cause? The United States is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement for the second time, while heat ...

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Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived – the megatooth shark Otodus megalodon – was an ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...

“When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen ...

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...