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Top Stories | November 7
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Quakes far from tectonic plate boundaries may simply be aftershocks of ancient temblors.
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The world-renowned ice caps could disappear by 2022, new research suggests.
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A NASA model incorporates how atmospheric aerosols and greenhouse gases interact, yielding better estimates of the gases' warming and cooling effects.
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Minerals still accumulate in New Mexico’s Snowy River.
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A modern survey of terrain determines flow rate of the 1889 flood that was one of America's deadliest disasters.
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A modern survey of terrain determines flow rate of the 1889 flood that was one of America's deadliest disasters.Cyclones striking the Gulf Coast in recent years have spawned more twisters that those that hit the region in the mid-20th century. Analyses of chromium isotopes in banded iron formations suggest oxygen levels fell for a period after the Great Oxidation Event. Large meteoroids are probably more common than telescopic surveys suggest, new analyses find. New glacier model helps explain how ice masses can grow even in a generally warming climate. |
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