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Discovery News - Earth News
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Earth News looks at rocks, global warming and extreme weather to get the lowdown on what the Earth is trying to tell us.
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Two Lives Added to Avatar Tree of Souls
Mike deGruy and Andrew Wight, two amazing ocean cinematographers, have died in a helicopter crash in Australia. Our hearts at Discovery News go out to their families and friends.
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Earth's Mugshot Explained
NASA's newest Earth-watching satellite is beaming back spectacular views of our home planet. Here's how it works.
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Super Bowl Tackles Climate Change
At the slick new Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis even the lights shining on the New York Giants and New England Patriots will be accounted for by renewable energy certificates.
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Little Ice Age Started With Volcanoes
A step-by-step guide to how volcanoes in the tropics could engulf northern European towns in ice.
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Groundhog Day 2012: Big Pic
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning during the 126th annual Groundhog Day festivities. What else do you need to know about Groundhog Day?
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New Alien Planet Ripe for Life?
A potentially habitable alien planet that orbits a triple-star system is perfectly positioned for liquid water -- and possibly life.
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Moss Froze the Planet
Land plants may have brought about their own demise by triggering a series of ice ages.
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Greasing The Jets With French Fry Oil
Airlines tank up passenger jets with used restaurant cooking oil in an effort to make travel a bit greener.
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Saving Whales, For Real and on the Screen
"Big Miracle" recalls the events during the Cold War, when this woman had the courage to call Russia.
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Climate Scientists Occupy Wall Street Journal
Climate scientists are protesting the Wall Street Journal's publication of a letter from climate skeptics with mostly non-climate backgrounds.
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Enormous Antarctic Crack Is a Real Ice-Breaker: Big Pic
NASA's Terra Earth-observing satellite captured this image of the crack across Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica.
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How Can a Planet Fit in a Drop of Water?: Big Pic
Drops Of Jupiter: Using high-speed photography, Markus Reugels captures a variety of celestial wonders inside a water droplet.
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What Lovely Lenticulars You Have Rocky: Big Pic
From just below the horizon the sun illuminated this high flying formation of lenticular clouds above Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
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100 Years on the Edge of Kilauea
Perched on the rim of Kïlauea volcano's summit caldera, the Hawaii Volcano Observatory (HVO) has watched over one of the world’s most active eruptors since 1912.
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Freaky Fossils: Don't Smell These Tulips!
Canadian paleontologists have identified bizarre tulip-looking fossils as animals, but with feeding holes and an anus not in the usual places.
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What's Taking E.T. So Long to Find Us?
E.T. would have had plenty of time to reach us by now. Are we just being ignored?
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Controversy Over EU Airport Carbon Credits
As of today, airplanes using European airports must use credits to account for some of their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Inuit Insight on Fear of Killer Whales
Canadian Inuit traditional knowledge has provided new insights on how marine mammals respond to a killer whale in the neighborhood.
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Body Found as Concordia Fuel Pumping Delayed
Heavy weather forced salvage crews to suspend pumping thousands of tonnes of fuel from the wrecked Costa Concordia liner Saturday.
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Cold Plasma Layer Detected High Above Earth
Cold, electrically charged particles have long been suspected to exist tens of thousands of miles above the Earth's surface, and now satellites have detected such ions there for the first time.
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