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Scientists discovered a hummingbird chick that twitches like a caterpillar. This behavior scares off predators.

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However, Mirarco also figures that billions of dollars in critical minerals were being left untapped. It calculated, as an ...

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Canada’s forest is in trouble – and so are we. Chainsaws and fossil fuel burning are draining billions of tonnes of CO2 out ...

"Imagine watching Earth from far away," Boston University ... "Blue would increase as oceans rotate into view," he added. "Changes in brown and green would tell you something about soil and ...

Yet the treeless hills looked healthy and green. I tried to hide my surprise. For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's ... me a soft, brown banana—a leftover ...

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