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Goats and Sheep Are Brawling in the Rockies. Blame Glacial Melt

This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In one corner,...

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Flooded the World’s Coastlines With a Catastrophic Tsunami

For decades, scientists have theorized that a massive impact caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. This event occurred about...

The Pacific Ocean Will be Gone in 300 Million Years as the World’s Continents Drift and Combine

Today, the Earth’s seven continents are distributed across the surface, with North and South America occupying one hemisphere, Africa,...

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Asteroid That Created the Biggest Known Crater on Earth

Ancient impacts played a powerful role in Earth’s complex history. On other Solar System bodies like the Moon...

What Is a Wetland Worth?

Annie Proulx was not able to travel for her book on wetlands. She had imagined journeys into the...

Mars did Have Moving Glaciers, but They Behaved Differently in the Planet’s Lower Gravity

On Earth, shifts in our climate have caused glaciers to advance and recede throughout our geological history (known as...

A second asteroid may have struck Earth after the one that killed the dinosaurs

-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email view in app Approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Earth...

Would We Have Continents Without Asteroid Impacts?

Early Earth was a wild and wooly place. In its first billion years, during a period called the...

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