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Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

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15 hours ago | 5 / 5 (24) | 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...

'Monster' iceberg shedding hundreds of offshoots

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16 hours ago | 4.6 / 5 (9) | 2

An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday.

Fossils on the Edge of Forever

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4 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

Astrobiologists have not yet found alien life on other planets. But the fossil record has evidence of aliens of another sort: the Ediacarans that lived on Earth millions of years ago.

Going vertical: Fleeing tsunamis by moving up, not out

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7 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

In the minutes after a strong earthquake struck offshore of the Indonesian city of Padang on Sept. 30, fears of a tsunami prompted hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate the coastal city. Or try to.

Sunshine speeded 1940s Swiss glacier melt: scientists

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7 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 4

A surge in sunshine more than 60 years ago helped Swiss mountain glaciers melt faster than today, even though warmer average temperatures are being recorded now, Swiss researchers said Monday.

California's troubled waters: Satellite-based findings reveal major groundwater loss in Central Valley (w/ Video)

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New space observations reveal that since October 2003, the aquifers for California's primary agricultural region - the Central Valley - and its major mountain water source - the Sierra Nevada - have lost nearly ...

Studying ice crystals to understand the cloud-climate connection

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning in mid-December, scientists will undertake a special mission to squeeze the secrets out of ice crystals in cirrus clouds. The SPARTICUS, or Small Particles in Cirrus, campaign will ...

New Study Turns Up the Heat on Soot's Role in Himalayan Warming (w/ Video)

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Soot from fire in an unventilated fireplace wafts into a home and settles on the surfaces of floors and furniture. But with a quick fix to the chimney flue and some dusting, it bears no impact ...

Going underground for a climate solution

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hoping to help fix the Earth's atmosphere, Catherine Peters recently found herself 4,100 feet underground.

Tropical Cyclone Mick forms quickly, hits Fiji in the southwestern Pacific

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Tropical Cyclone Mick formed over the weekend in the southwestern Pacific Ocean and made a quick landfall over Fiji's main island of Viti Levu earlier today, December 14. Mick made landfall as a Category ...

Tropical Storm Laurence set for second Australian landfall

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Tropical Storm Laurence tracked through Darwin Australia this weekend before sliding back into the Timor Sea and now Laurence is forecast to make a second landfall in Australia. Laurence is forecast to make ...

Portions of Arctic coastline eroding, no end in sight, says new study

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The northern coastline of Alaska midway between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay is eroding by up to one-third the length of a football field annually because of a "triple whammy" of declining sea ice, warming ...

TRMM sees 05B winding down off the Sri Lanka coast

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Tropical Depression 05B is dissipating on the east coast of Sri Lanka today and over the next couple of days, but not before bringing some moderate and heavy rain over the next couple of days to some areas ...