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A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

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China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built ...

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Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

As the climate warms, scientists expect animals and plants to move to cooler areas—uphill, toward the poles, or into deeper waters. But in a surprising twist, scientists have found that over a third ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

An important feature of the Tropics is the prevalence of rain in the moist inner regions near the equator, and that the seasonality of rainfall increases with the distance from the equator.