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It has been 30 years since the end of the Cold War, yet on average, Americans still perceive that the odds of a nuclear...
Complex rupturing during 2019 Ridgecrest, California, sequence
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Native Americans did not make large-scale changes to environment prior to European contact
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Signals from inside Earth: Borexino experiment releases new data on geoneutrinos
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The color of your clothing can impact wildlife
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Quo vadis Antarctic bottom water?
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Earth’s oldest asteroid strike linked to ‘big thaw’
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Air pollution in New York City linked to wildfires hundreds of miles away
A new study shows that air pollutants from the smoke of fires from as far as Canada and the southeastern US traveled hundreds of...
Missing piece to urban air quality puzzle
Air quality models have long failed to accurately predict atmospheric levels of secondary organic aerosol, which comprises a substantial fraction of the fine particulate...
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