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4 Jul 2009
Top Story: Earth's History: Freeze and Fry
By Sam Fowler
Today’s rapid climate change is undoubtedly the result of greenhouse gases produced by humans. But extraordinary swings in our planet’s past climate have been caused by changes in its interior and influences from deep space. In the...
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> Uncovering an asteroid
> Global Warming - A Chilling Possibility
> Extinction!
> Great Volcano Eruptions in Earth History
Today’s rapid climate change is undoubtedly the result of greenhouse gases produced by humans. But extraordinary swings in our planet’s past climate have been caused by changes in its interior and influences from deep space. In the...
> Read this article
> Uncovering an asteroid
> Global Warming - A Chilling Possibility
> Extinction!
> Great Volcano Eruptions in Earth History
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Interview: James Lovelock on Climate Change
The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just released a...
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The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just released a...
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Going Green: On Earth and Beyond
Scientists are now looking at how research into space can help the Earth – and vice...
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Scientists are now looking at how research into space can help the Earth – and vice...
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In After Days
By Henry Austin Dobson
RondeauIn after days when grasses highO'er-top the stone where I shall lie,Though ill or well the world adjustMy...
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In After Days
By Henry Austin Dobson
RondeauIn after days when grasses highO'er-top the stone where I shall lie,Though ill or well the world adjustMy...
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Facts
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico calculated that if an asteroid three miles across hit the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the tsunami would swamp the upper East Coast as far inland as the Appalachian Mountains and drown the coasts of France and Portugal.> More facts
Editor's Weekly
A Warmer World
Photo courtesy of Barbara Summey, NASA Goddard Visualization Analysis Lab, based upon...
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Photo courtesy of Barbara Summey, NASA Goddard Visualization Analysis Lab, based upon...
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