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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 ...

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

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

“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 ...