Earth

  1. Climate

    Slashing greenhouse gas emissions could save millions of lives

    Simulations suggest reduced air pollution would improve public health.

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  2. Environment

    Cool Idea

    While nations concede a pressing need for attacking carbon dioxide emissions, other pollutants offer quicker paybacks.

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  3. Earth

    Deadliest hurricane in western hemisphere

    Hurricane records have been broken.

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  4. Earth

    Hot spot deep beneath North America could have triggered quakes

    Mantle plume might have left trail of hot rock under continental US.

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  5. Earth

    Buried Saharan rivers might have been early expressways

    Humans might have migrated across the arid region along three once-lush waterways.

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  6. Environment

    Grain alcohol in gasoline?

    An excerpt from the September 21, 1963, issue of Science News Letter.

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  7. Earth

    World’s largest volcano lurks beneath Pacific Ocean

    The dormant behemoth may rival ones on Mars.

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  8. Climate

    No more Superstorm Sandys expected for a long time

    Future conditions less likely to steer hurricanes directly into the East Coast, analysis suggests.

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  9. Earth

    Big canyon entombed beneath Greenland’s ice

    Newly discovered chasm helps explain island's lack of subglacial lakes.

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  10. Climate

    Global warming hiatus tied to cooler temps in Pacific

    Average air temperatures' rise has paused, but not stopped, because of normal variation in ocean temperatures.

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  11. Earth

    Map tracks path of dust plume from Chelyabinsk meteor

    Satellite data capture how the jet stream pushed particles through the planet's atmosphere.

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  12. Earth

    Letters to the editor

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