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Amazon River carbon dioxide emissions nearly balance terrestrial uptake
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Changes in tectonic activity may have shaped composition of Panama Canal rocks
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Shelf sediments reveal climate shifts through the eons
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Fish should figure into fate of nation’s aging dams
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Genome sequence of fuel-producing alga announced
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Florida entrepreneur develops community financing option for wind.
As community solar arrays become more popular around the country, a Florida entrepreneur has created a company to apply a similar model to wind projects.
Daniel...
Arctic nations to meet amid unsettled U.S. stance on climate change.
By HENRY FOUNTAINMay 9, 2017FAIRBANKS, Alaska — As Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson heads to Alaska on Wednesday for talks on Arctic issues, he finds...
Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep.
Half the oceans’ water was ice or snow during this extreme ice age
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