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Clues from another dry spell 6,000 years ago are helping scientists understand what’s driving the latest one, and why it’s ...

Meet the Qimmit, Greenand's genetically diverse sled dogs that have been long-time Artic companions.

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Wearing nothing but a bathing suit, a swimming cap and an underwater mask, the 40-year-old woman plunged into a carved-out section of a frozen Siberian lake, before diving under the ice to swim in ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

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