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POPSEarthquakes weaken distant faults This is according to scientists who took measurements from the fault over two decades. Reporting in the journal Nature, the team found that small "repeating earthquakes" became more frequent as the San Andreas Fault weakened. This pattern, they say, could help to forecast earthquakes in the future, something that is currently impossible.
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POPSWinners of the Lennart Nilsson Photography Award in Nature Babak A. Tafreshi's photographs reclaim a night sky that most modern people have lost. He takes us to remote places where the stars still look like they did at the dawn of mankind. His work calls to mind the beauty of the universe and human life on our planet."
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POPS"Peculiar" New Geyser Erupts in Russia Two years after that devastating loss, "this year a new miracle has appeared in another part of the reserve," WWF's Alexandra Filatkina said in a statement. "We have the rare opportunity to witness these natural processes as they become history."
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POPSHow Many Earth Days Do We Have Left? "We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize," says Brown. "These deadlines are set by nature. Nature is the timekeeper, but we cannot see the clock."
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POPSChina breeds tigers to make "wine" China should concentrate on their pollution, overpopulation and ecological problems. Their flagrant disrespect for nature and their co-inhabiters of the planet will have karmic repercussions