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A towering, centuries old sea creature has been found rising from the seafloor off New Zealand, its branches forming a living ...

Billionaires are eyeing Greenland for a futuristic tech city, but political, environmental, and logistical realities make the ...

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For nine days, the Earth hummed in harmony with a pulse of about 92 seconds a narrowband vibration that appeared almost ...

"That is very direct evidence that the ice sheet is as sensitive as we feared," said Yarrow Axford, a geologist who was not ...

New research reveals that the highest tsunamis in history were caused by sudden landslides, not earthquakes, leaving ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...