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No one ever thought the birth of the Rocky Mountains was a simple process, but we now know it was far more complex than even ...

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President Trump has doubled down on threats to take control of Greenland. He will partly use a trip to the World Economic ...

Japan's famed "snow monsters" may actually be ghosts of an ancient blast. For years, the hulking, ice-coated trees that ...

If we take a bird’s eye view of the Indian subcontinent, one thing strikes us as its main feature: Diversity. This region has developed as a geographically, historically, culturally, and economically ...