How an ancient whale graveyard ended up in a Chilean desert

Scientists think they have figured out how a trove of ancient marine mammal fossils ended up in a Chilean desert 40 metres above sea level. The fossils were found at Cerro Ballena — Spanish for "whale hill" — in Chile's Atacama desert in 2010 by crews...

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Troubled Bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy

The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday and its chief executive said 850,000 bitcoins, worth several hundred million dollars, are unaccounted for. The exchange's CEO Mark Karpeles appeared before Japanese TV news...

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'Rock snot' algae outbreaks blamed on climate change

New research reveals a nasty, mucus-like algae bloom that emerged in Eastern Canada in 2006 may not be an invasive species after all. Instead, it appears to be a native species that was once subdued by cooler temperatures, but is...

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Unnatural selection: Cities triggering genetic changes in wild things

Plants and animals have a long history of acclimatizing to city living - think of raccoons and their expert pillaging of compost bins. But now biologists are beginning to see signs that something more fundamental is happening. They say wild things may...

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715 new planets discovered by NASA

NASA Wednesday confirmed a bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets circling stars other than our sun. NASA'ss Kepler planet-hunting telescope nearly doubled the number of planets scientists have discovered in the galaxy. (NASA/Associated Press) The...

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Explore the polar bear tundra on Google Street View

You can now pay a virtual visit to wild polar bears on the tundra via Google Street View. The stunning tundra landscape of Cape Churchill and Wapusk National Park in Northern Manitoba — polar bears and all — went online today in honour...

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Concerned about kids' screen time? The antidote is nature

While experts worry about the ills of the internet age and the health problems linked to kids' hours of screen time, Richard Louv says there is an antidote - and it's free. Louv is the author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle, and...

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Unnatural selection: Cities triggering genetic changes in wild things

Plants and animals have a long history of acclimatizing to city living - think of raccoons and their expert pillaging of compost bins. But now biologists are beginning to see signs that something more fundamental is happening. They say wild things may...

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Extreme heat days multiply despite global warming 'hiatus'

The number of extremely hot days has been increasing steadily globally despite a "pause" in the rise of average surface temperatures over the past 15 years, a new study has found. "This analysis shows that not only is there no pause in the evolution...

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CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents

A top secret document retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by CBC News shows that Canada's electronic spy agency used information from the free internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands...

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Keystone XL gets environmental OK from U.S. State Dept.

The U.S. State Department gave a vote of confidence to the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, saying in a report that it has no major environmental objections to the construction of the megaproject. The report says development of the massive pipeline to...

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Yahoo, federal law enforcement probing theft of email passwords

Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo's email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday. Yahoo didn't say how many accounts have...

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