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Two contract employees die in Antarctica

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After the hurricane: Maria’s far-reaching effects on Puerto Rico’s watersheds and forests

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Scientists brew lava and blow it up to better understand volcanoes

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UNH researchers find unexpected impact of hurricanes on Puerto Rico's watershed

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Experiments at PPPL show remarkable agreement with satellite sightings

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Live from the ocean research vessel Atlantis

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Biggest extinction in Earth's history caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping for breath

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Atmospheric scientists find causes of firenado in deadly Carr Fire

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Soft tissue shows Jurassic ichthyosaur was warm-blooded, had blubber and camouflage

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Mantle neon illuminates Earth's formation

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Greenland ice sheet melt 'off the charts' compared with past four centuries

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Deep biosphere beneath the seafloor explored at American Geophysical Union fall meeting

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Saltier waterways are creating dangerous 'chemical cocktails'

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Uneven rates of sea level rise tied to climate change

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Table-top experiment flips current understanding of solutal convection

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Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia

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Scientists to present new long-term ecological research findings at fall American Geophysical Union meeting

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NSF-supported scientists present new research results on Earth's critical zone at 2018 AGU fall meeting

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US groundwater in peril: Potable supply less than thought

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Earth's polar regions communicate via oceanic 'postcards,' atmospheric 'text messages'

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Threatened tropical coral reefs form complex, ancient associations with bacteria

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Newly discovered deep-sea microbes gobble greenhouse gases and perhaps oil spills, too

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Upwind wind farms can reduce the energy production of downwind neighbor turbines

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Corals and their microbiomes evolved together, new research shows

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Is Antarctica becoming more like Greenland?

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Antarctic melting slows atmospheric warming and speeds sea level rise

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'True polar wander' may have caused ice age

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Current climate models underestimate warming by black carbon aerosol

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Scientists produce 3D chemical maps of single bacteria

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