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Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite National Park unveils 400-acre expansion Yosemite National Park in California is to gain a 400-acre addition, its largest expansion in nearly 70 years. Ackerson Meadow features wetlands and rolling hills that are home to endangered wildlife Read more
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Landslides
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Satellites may warn of killer landslides Researchers in China and the United Kingdom hope to use satellite imaging for the early detection of landslides in Southwest China, such as the one in late June that engulfed a village in Maoxian county, Sichuan province, leaving at least 10 dead and 73 missi...
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Coral reefs, like tree rings, are natural archives of climate change. But oceanic corals also provide a faithful account of how people make use of land through history, says Robert B. Dunbar of Stanford University. In a study published in the Feb. 22 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Dunbar an...
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The giant stone statues of Easter Island have perplexed generations of archaeologists, engineers and scholars. Ever since European explorers first set eyes on them three centuries ago these carvings have presented a problem. How could the island's primitive inhabitants have erected such mass...
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World Population
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The Earth now home to nearly 6.5 billion souls, and more than half of them live in just six countries, according to a report from the French Institute for Demographic Studies (IFED).
Out of every 100 people living in the world, 61 live in Asia, 14 in Africa, 11 in Europe, 9 in Latin America, 5 in North...
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Shark
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Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a "virgin birth" in a shark, indicating once again that female sharks can reproduce without mating and raising the possibility that many female sharks have this incredible capacity. This compelling new study will be published today i...
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. "Ballbot" is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that balances dynamically on a single urethane-coated metal sphere. It weighs 95 pounds a...
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Ancient Amphibians
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Unprecedented fossilised body imprints of amphibians have been discovered in 330 million-year-old rocks from Pennsylvania. The imprints show the unmistakably webbed feet and bodies of three previously unknown, foot-long salamander-like critters that lived 100 million years before the fir...
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Yangtze River
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Major Yangtze River tributary breaks record flood level Days of torrential rain in central China's Hunan Province raised the water level of the Xiangjiang River, a major tributary of Yangtze River, to exceed its record flood level Sunday morning. The water level in the section of the river in Chang...
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Precious Stones
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True North Gems Inc, a Canadian exploration company, is pleased to announce the completion of the carving of what the company believes to be the largest recorded ruby in the Northwestern Hemisphere. Found in 2005 on the company's property in the Fiskenaesset district of Greenland, the 440 carat ro...
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RRS Sir David Attenborough
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Arctic crossing planned for 'Boaty' sub The UK's favourite new yellow submarine, Boaty McBoatface, is in training for a grand challenge. Scientists plan to send the long-range autonomous vehicle under the sea-ice of the Arctic - from one side of the ocean basin to the other. Read more
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Ancient tools found in Britain show that humans lived in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, at a time when the climate was warm enough for lions, elephants and saber tooth tigers to also roam what is now England.
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Ocean Floor
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Deep under the ocean's surface lies a treasure trove of new life forms, fuel sources and knowledge. But, given the darkness, freezing temperatures and crushing pressure, it's not easy to get there. Indeed 95 percent of the ocean remains unexplored; we know more about the surface of Mars than we do ab...
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Cats
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Domestic cats around the world can trace their origins back to the Middle East's Fertile Crescent, according to a genetic study in Science journal. They may have been domesticated by early farming communities, experts say. The study suggests the progenitors of today's cats split from their wild c...
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Battle of Waterloo
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Waterloo archaeologists search 'killing zone' As Europe prepares to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, one corner of the battlefield will soon give up its secrets. Read more
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