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TeenSailor: Dekker finished her third ocean
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Dutch teenager Laura Dekker has crossed the Indian Ocean in silence to avoid pirates. The young sailor has now crossed three oceans solo on her way around the world, and she has found the silence of the seas.
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12 of History's Greatest Polar Explorers
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It takes a brave spirit and thirst for adventure to venture into the harsh landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic, but courageous men and women have been doing so for more than a century. Some of the explorers on our list set out ... - All MNN Content
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Sunken Treasure?
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Off Bermuda, archaeologist Jim Delgado examines fragments of a paint can found in the wreck of the paddle wheel steamer Mary Celestia, a Civil War-era blockade runner that sank 147 years ago.
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Risk, Voyeurism, and Near Disaster
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The weather report was ugly. With less than 48 hours before the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre, sailors were looking at heading into the Atlantic from Le Havre, France, in steady, 40-knot side winds with 60-knot gusts and conf... - Sailing World
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Ultimate Adventure Bucket List 2012
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Twenty of the world's top athletes and explorers share their wildest dream trips—a dazzling list of never attempted feats daunting to even these world-class competitors. For the rest of us, consider their must-do adventures—and st... - NatGeo
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World's Best Hikes: 15 Classic Trails
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Over the past decade, author Peter Potterfield has hiked more than 10,000 miles over six continents to research this list. He here tells us his picks for the world's 15 best hikes, including Patagonia, Tasmania, Newfoundland, and ... - NatGeo
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Russian Launches Probe to Moon of Mars
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Russia has launched an unmanned probe on a daring mission to reach Phobos, a moon of Mars, and to fly samples of its soil back to Earth - Boston.com -- Latest news
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A True Protoceratops Nest
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“The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things,” paleontologist Jack Horner said during his talk about dinosaurs and evolution the other night, “but it’s not a complete record.” Many of the sessions and posters I have s... - Dinosaur Tracking
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From Hunting to Farming
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The transition from hunting to farming in central Europe has long been a source of fascination to many. Recent archaeological investigations have improved our understanding of this difficult, violent era in human history. - About.com Archaeology: What's
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Fiery Volcano Offers Geologic Glimpse Into Land That Ti...
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The first scientists to witness exploding rock and molten lava from a deep sea volcano, seen during a 2009 expedition, report that the eruption was near a tear in Earth's crust that is mimicking the birth of a subduction zone. ... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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Hundreds Show Up at Fairbanks Open Comment on ANWR
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Hundreds of local residents flooded the Carlson Center on Wednesday, eager to weigh in on whether the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should be focused on wilderness or oil. - Alaska news
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New Mexico's Peculiar Two-Horned Dinosaur
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On Sunday, I drove two and a half hours to meet a dinosaur. My journey was part of a trend this year. As I have traveled around the west, from Montana to New Mexico, I have sought out dinosaurs that I have never seen before, and w... - Dinosaur Tracking
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The First Americans: Mounting Evidence Prompts Research...
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In the sweltering heat of an early July afternoon, Michael R. Waters clambers down into a shadowy pit where a small hive of excavators edge their trowels into an ancient floodplain. A murmur rises from the crew, and one of the ... - Scientific American
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Green Blog: Industry Flouts Bluefin Catch Limits
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The amount of eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna traded on the global market in 2010 exceeded the official quota by 141 percent -- in other words, nearly two and half times what is mandated, according to an analysis commissioned by the... - NYT > Environment
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Trafficking of Baby Gorillas Poses New Threat to Endang...
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DR Congo authorities say they are powerless to combat trade in which poachers demand up to $40,000 an animal. A surge in trafficking of baby gorillas is posing a fresh risk to the endangered species in the Democratic Republic of C... - Environment news, comment and
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Floods in Central America
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Floods and landslides resulting from heavy rains cause havoc across Central America. Dozens are dead, and losses of staple crops are expected to be severe. In El Salvador alone, an estimated 13,000 people have been displaced. - NYT > Environment
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Archaeology and the History of Alcohol
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The history of alcoholic beverages has a special fascination to archaeologists and anthropologists. Partly, the fascination rests in the economics of manufacture, trading and consuming alcohol, for home brew, special feasting, mar... - About.com Archaeology
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Paleontologists Unveil the 11th Archaeopteryx
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For Archaeopteryx, 2011 has been a year of ups and downs. Paleontologists celebrated the 150th anniversary of when the iconic feathered dinosaur was named. But shortly afterwards, a controversial paper in Nature in July proposed t... - Dinosaur Tracking
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A Snapshot of Shark Finning
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The Pew Environment Group issues a series of often-graphic photographs taken in Taiwan, which along with Indonesia, India and Spain is among the world's most active participants in shark finning - NYT > Environment
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Restored citadel is symbol of hope in Afghanistan
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In the 1970s, tourists traveled to western Afghanistan to climb on the ruins of an ancient citadel, a fortress resembling a sandcastle that has stood overlooking the city of Herat for thousands of years. - Boston.com -- Latest news
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Archaeologists find 400,000 Year Old Blade
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Archaeologists report that large numbers of long, slender cutting tools were discovered at the Qesem Cave outside Tel Aviv. They report that every element of the system points to a sophisticated tool "production line" to rival tec... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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Polar Bears Ill from Accumulated Environmental Toxins
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Industrial chemicals are being transported from the industrialized world to the Arctic via air and sea currents. Here, the cocktail of environmental toxins is absorbed by the sea's food chains, of which the polar bear is the top p... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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Artifacts Indicate a 100,000-year-old Art Studio
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In South Africa, abalone shells covered with pigment and tools for making paints are found in a cave, suggesting humans began thinking symbolically much earlier than previously recognized - L.A. Times - Science
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This Week's Top Environment News Stories: October 14th ...
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Top news headlines, stories and issues from the environment world this week up to October 14th 2011. Topics this week include conservation and wildlife in the UK, North Sea oil drilling, arctic ice and the oil spill in New Zealand... - The Earth Times Online Newspap
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The Impact of Ecological Limits on Population Growth
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Demographers are predicting that world population will climb to 10 billion this century. But with increasing pressure on water and food supplies will this projected population boom turn into a bust? - Environment news, comment and
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Gauging the Effects of the BP Spill
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An array of undersea microbes is giving humans an assist in the cleanup of last years BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, though a Harvard biologist said Wednesday that the full effects of the 200-million-gallon spill on life deep... - Harvard Gazette Online
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What Causes the Dust Storms in Arizona?
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A dust storm that rolled across the Arizona desert on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, effectively blinded motorists, leading to a large string of motor vehicle crashes, multiple injuries, and at least one death.
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Fossilized Dinosaur Tracks at Aniakchak Caldera, Alaska
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Geographers first noticed the circular feature on the landscape, and a 1922 geologic expedition confirmed the origin of the depression. Several decades later, paleontologists made another find at Aniakchak: - Geology News
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Possible Trigger for Volcanic Super-Eruptions Di...
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The "super-eruption" of a major volcanic system occurs about every 100,000 years and is considered one of the most catastrophic natural events on Earth, yet scientists have long been unsure about what triggers these violent explos... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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Atmospheric Oxygenation Caused by a Change in Volcanic ...
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The Precambrian history of our planet is marked by two major events: a pulse of continental crust formation at the end of the Archaean eon and a weak oxygenation of the atmosphere (the Great Oxidation Event) that followed, at 2.45... - Nature - Issue - nature.com sc
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Laying the Blame for Extreme Weather
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Floods, tornadoes, droughts and wildfires: They are all weather-related, but blaming the latest meteorological disaster on climate change has always been a tricky matter that climate scientists have been shy to do. After all, how ... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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Ancient Whale Jawbone Found in Antarctica
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The jawbone of an ancient whale found in Antarctica may be the oldest fully aquatic whale yet discovered, Argentine scientists said Tuesday. - The Seattle Times: Home
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Antarctic lake mission gets ready
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A pioneering British expedition to sample a lake under the Antarctic ice hopes to find unknown forms of life and clues to future climate impacts.
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Antarctica's ancient lake may yield clues over Earth's ...
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An ancient lake hidden deep beneath the west Antarctic ice sheet may reveal vital clues about climate change, future sea level rises and uncover new forms of life, according to a group of British engineers and scientists.
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Mapping Undersea Gas Seeps
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DURHAM, N.H. – A technology commonly used to map the bottom of the deep ocean can also detect gas seeps in the water column -- a conceptual “column” of water from surface to the seafloor -- with remarkably high fidelity, according... - Geology News
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Point Hope, environmentalist group appeal Shell drillin...
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In what has become standard practice for any major Alaska oil and gas permitting decision, a group of organizations opposed to Arctic offshore oil and gas development has appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit o... - Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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A new species of 'gigantic' mollusc has been discovered...
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Researchers have discovered a rare mollusc in Antarctic waters that looks the same as limpets but is bigger in size than the species known to date. The specimen appeared in waters much further away from where this type of species ... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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Shipwrecks
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There are untold thousands of archaeological shipwrecks in the world; here is a selection of the few that have been excavated. - About.com Archaeology: What's
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Treasure hunting co. finds Atlantic silver ship
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A Florida deep-sea exploration company with a record of finding sunken treasure has discovered a ship filled with silver 8,000 feet beneath the North Atlantic Ocean, the firm said Monday. - Boston.com / Boston Globe -- N
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Wyoming Wolves Likely to Lose Endangered Species Listin...
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Following approval of a revised wolf management plan by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to remove the gray wolf population in Wyoming from the Federal List of Endangered and Th... - ENS
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Archaeology of the Iliad
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Homer's classic tales of war and civilization the Iliad and the Odyssey are set in the culture that archaeologists call the Mycenaean. Here's a description of the Mycenaeans and how they lived their lives. - About.com Archaeology: What's
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Supply questions asked as rare earths are getting rarer
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The elements rarest in the Earth (rare earths) are the most expensive, until we mine the Moon or Mars. However, rare earth minerals are increasingly used in new technologies such as electric vehicles, photovoltaic cells and smart ... - The Earth Times Online Newspap
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Archaeologist argues world's oldest temples were not te...
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Ancient structures uncovered in Turkey and thought to be the world's oldest temples may not have been strictly religious buildings after all, according to a new article. Archaeologists argue that the buildings found at Gobekli Tep... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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First Arctic Ozone Hole
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This week, a new paper in Nature uses a companion instrument on Aura, the Microwave Limb Sounder, to help describe why the ozone hole formed. - Geology News
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Deep-Ocean Seismic System
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Oceanography at UC San Diego have been granted $1.02 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a cutting-edge deep-ocean seismic system. - Geology News
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Cutter Begins Third Arctic Ocean Science Mission
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Coast Guard says one of its cutters is under way in Alaska waters on its third science mission of 2011. The 420-foot Healy is a polar icebreaker based in Seattle. - Alaska news
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Southern California's tectonic plates revealed in detai...
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Rifting is one of the fundamental geological forces that have shaped our planet. Were it not for the stretching of continents and the oceans that filled those newly created basins, Earth would be a far different place. Yet because... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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Ancient Road Found at Maya Village Buried by Volcanic A...
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A research team excavating a Maya village in El Salvador buried by a volcanic eruption 1,400 years ago has unexpectedly hit an ancient white road that appears to lead to and from the town, which was frozen in time by a blanket of ... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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A carbon isotope challenge to the snowball Earth
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The snowball Earth hypothesis postulates that the planet was entirely covered by ice for millions of years in the Neoproterozoic era, in a self-enhanced glaciation caused by the high albedo of the ice-covered planet. - Nature - Issue - nature.com sc
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New Perks of Biofuel Crops
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Some biofuel crops could help to free us from oil but end up exacting an unacceptable cost by devouring precious water resources says a new study into two such crops which are tipped for large scale biofuel production.
- The Earth Times Online Newspap
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Ancient Egyptians used Shampoo-like Product on Mummies
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Ancient Egyptians might have been just as vain as humans today. They seem to have styled their hair with fat-based products to enhance their appearance and accentuate their individuality, new research suggests.
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Rosneft Teams up with Exxon Mobil in Arctic deal
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Russia's state-owned Rosneft teamed up with U.S. company Exxon Mobil on Tuesday in a multibillion deal to develop offshore oil fields in the Russian Arctic - one of the last regions with immense and untapped hydrocarbon deposits -... - The Seattle Times: Home
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Texas Drought Threatens Endangered Species
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Federal officials are readying plans to evacuate a small number of endangered species in Texas as a severe drought lowers water levels and threatens the survival of rare wildlife in the state's huge ecosystem. - Boston.com -- Latest news
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Florida's Coral Reefs Cannot Handle a Cold Snap
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Florida's 2010 record-breaking cold snap? Well, a new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science shows that Florida's corals also dropped in numbers due to the cold co... - Geology News
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Icelandic Current Could Change North Atlantic Climate P...
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An international team of researchers, including physical oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland that could significantly inf... - NSF News From the Field
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Rainier Climb
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A solid late season snow pack has left the Emmons Glacier route in great condition. We took advantage of this on our two-day climb. - Google Videos - mt. everest
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Divers survey Scottish graveyard of first world war sub...
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An underwater grave containing the victims of one of the worst British naval disasters of the first world war has been surveyed for the first time so it can be preserved in the middle of a windfarm. - Latest news and comment from B
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USGS Researchers Tag Walruses Off NW Alaska
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Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey Science Center are engaged in a project to attach radio tags to walruses living off northwest Alaska, to use the tracking of walrus movements for the assessment of the impact of receding... - Petroleum News RSS Feed to HTM
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Hurricane Irene Barrels Toward Massachusetts.
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It's business as usual for the MBTA as Hurricane Irene barrels toward Massachusetts. A spokesman says the T is increasing staff, while buses and trains are currently scheduled to run on a normal weekend timetable — unless conditio... - Boston.com -- Latest news
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Strange Hole on Asteroid Vesta Poses Puzzle
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Planetary scientists thought they knew what to expect when NASA\'s Dawn spacecraft returned the first close-up portrait of the giant asteroid Vesta last month. - Scientific American
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The Himalayas
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This was the mountain flight we went on in Nepal. Mt. Everest was breathtaking! - Google Videos - mt. everest
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Scaling Afghanistan's Highest Peak
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Foreign and local climbers have recently scaled Afghanistan's highest mountain, indicating that some areas of the war-torn country are ready for a revival in international tourism... - The Seattle Times: Home
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VIDEO: Japan tsunami reached Antarctic
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Pictures from the European Space Agency\'s Envisat satellite have shown how waves created by the Japanese tsunami in March broke chunks off an Antarctic ice shelf. - BBC News | Science & Environme
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Scientists assess impact of Icelandic volcanic ash on o...
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An international team of oceanographers investigating the role of iron on ocean productivity in the northerly latitudes of the Atlantic Ocean will assess the impact of ash from the recent Icelandic volcano eruption on ocean biolog... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N
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Local climber & author chronicles two of the darkest da...
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Freddie Wilkinson tells the \'Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2\' by By Linda Tucker Freddie Wilkinson, an accomplished professional climber, is also the author of \'One Mountain Thousand Summits, which chronicles the... - Mountain Climbing
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BP chokes off the oil leak; now begins the wait
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BP finally choked off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday _ 85 days and up to 184 million gallons after the crisis unfolded?then began a tense 48 hours of watching to see whether the capped-off well would hold or b... - SFGate: Top News Stories
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