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Coco River in Brazil
News in Brief Earth
Only a third of Earth’s longest rivers still run free
Mapping millions of kilometers of waterways shows that just 37 percent of rivers longer than 1,000 kilometers remain unchained by human activities.
By Carolyn Gramling | 7:00am, May 10, 2019
flamingo lagoon
Feature | Earth
The search for new geologic sources of lithium could power a clean future
By Carolyn Gramling | 2:09pm, May 07, 2019
Horned passalus beetles
News | Earth
A belly full of wriggling worms makes wood beetles better recyclers
By Kathleen O'Neil | 7:00am, May 07, 2019
solid grains in a glass chamber
News | Earth
Dry sand can bubble and swirl like a fluid
By Carolyn Gramling | 2:21pm, April 30, 2019
STEVE
News | Earth
Here’s what causes the aurora-like glow known as STEVE
By Maria Temming | 7:00am, April 30, 2019
Baja California, Mexico
News | Earth
More than a million tiny earthquakes revealed in Southern California
By Carolyn Gramling | 2:00pm, April 18, 2019
Antarctica
Science Visualized | Earth
Warm, dry winds may be straining Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf
By Jeremy Rehm | 6:00am, April 18, 2019
iceberg
News | Earth
Antarctica’s iceberg graveyard could reveal the ice sheet’s future
By Carolyn Gramling | 9:00am, April 09, 2019
Pyroclastic flow in an eruption
News | Earth
How deadly, fast-moving flows of volcanic rock and gas cheat friction
By Maria Temming | 11:00am, April 08, 2019
central Tibetan Plateau
News | Earth
The ‘roof of the world’ was raised more recently than once thought
By Carolyn Gramling | 6:00am, March 11, 2019
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