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20 Nov 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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Featured Poem
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
By Philip Freneau
All that we see, about, abroad,What is it all, but nature's God?In meaner works discovered hereNo less than in the...
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On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
By Philip Freneau
All that we see, about, abroad,What is it all, but nature's God?In meaner works discovered hereNo less than in the...
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Facts
Petroleum geologists look for salt deposits to lead them to oil and gas. Because of its impervious nature, salt deposits stop oil and gas escaping, so form a natural underground reservoir.> 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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