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Earth Hour Dims World Landmarks

By UCN on April 1, 2012 3:48 AM

University students hold papers leaf to celebrate before a mini marathon in conjunction during the Earth Hour at the Great Wall of China in the north of Beijing, China, Saturday, March 31, 2012. (AP Photo/ Vincent Thian)

Hundreds of world landmarks from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark Saturday, part of a global effort to highlight climate change.

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Cities Worldwide on Track to Expand by More Than Twice the Size of Texas by 2030

By UCN on March 28, 2012 12:55 PM

Building denser cities like Manhattan -- as shown in this aerial view Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, in New York - could be part of the answer. (AP file)

Cities worldwide are on track to expand by nearly 580,000 square miles - more than twice the size of Texas - in less than 20 years, according to experts at a major international science conference.

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James Cameron: Mariana Trench Felt Like 'Another Planet'

By UCN on March 26, 2012 7:02 PM

Filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron emerges from the Deepsea Challenger submersible after his successful solo dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, Monday March 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Theissen, National Geographic)

In James Cameron's fantasy films, like "Avatar" and "The Abyss," the unexplored is splashed in color and fraught with alien danger. But on his dive to the deepest place on Earth, reality proved far different: white, barren and bland.

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Britain Warned to "Be...Very Afraid" as Volcanoes, Solar Storms Added to National Security Threat List

By UCN on March 19, 2012 11:57 AM

Britain has added volcanoes and solar storms to floods, flu and terrorism on a list of threats to national security.

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Pollution Turning Earth's Oceans Acidic at Faster Rate Than in 300 Million Years

By UCN on March 2, 2012 12:03 PM

Pollution may be turning the planet's oceans acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the past 300 million years (AFP/File, Hassan Ammar)

High levels of pollution may be turning the planet's oceans acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the past 300 million years, with unknown consequences for future sea life, researchers said Thursday.

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Fossil Hunters Excavate 380 Million-Year-Old Forest In New York

By UCN on March 1, 2012 1:06 PM

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An artist's rendering of the 380 million-year-old forest at Gilboa, New York. (Frank Mannolini/Discovery)

Fossil hunters investigating the floor of a 385 million-year-old forest in an excavated upstate New York quarry found evidence of a complex ecosystem teeming with plant life.

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Study: Melting Arctic Sea Ice Causing Snowier Winters

By UCN on March 1, 2012 1:06 PM

Melting sea ice in the Arctic may be causing the snowier winters the northern hemisphere has experienced in the last two seasons, US and Chinese researchers reported on Monday.

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Russians Reach Gigantic Freshwater Lake Under Antarctic Ice

By UCN on February 8, 2012 4:45 PM

In this Monday, Feb. 5, 2012 photo provided by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of St. Petersburg, Russian researchers at the Vostok station in Antarctica pose for a picture after reaching the subglacial lake Vostok. Scientists hold the sign reading "05.02.12, Vostok station, boreshaft 5gr, lake at depth 3769.3 metres." (AP Photo/Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Press Service)

Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon.

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Canada Pulls Out of Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change

By UCN on December 13, 2011 10:00 AM

Protesters shout as they demonstrate inside the building where the UN climate change conference was taking place in Durban, South Africa, Friday. (Schalk van Zuydam/Associated Press)

Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change Monday, saying the accord won't help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country.

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U.N. Climate Conference Reaches Agreement on Landmark Deal

By UCN on December 10, 2011 11:17 PM

U.N. climate official Christiana Figueres, right, talks with delegates at the climate change summit as it nears it's end in the city of Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change.

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