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Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour.
9 Impossible Rivers and Lakes That 'Defy the Rules'
"These hydrologic oddities illustrate how much we have still to learn about Earth's dynamic surface," researchers said in a ...
Ocean mixing intensifies central Pacific ENSO via diabatic heating, study reveals
The El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most influential interannual climate phenomena in the global ...
Sarah Blevins | Our Little Lifestyle on MSN3d
Everything You Need To Know About Casco Viejo Panama City
Our family recently went on a week-long vacation to Panama City, Panama. We really had no idea what to expect when visiting ...
OECD5d
10 ocean economy facts you need to know
As the trend towards the international dispersion of certain value chain activities produces challenges, discover policies to meet these Tax transparency and international co-operation Enhanced ...
News-Press NOW11d
Bill Gross Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the life of Bill Gross, founder of PIMCO, Pacific Investment Management Company. Personal Birth date: April ...
Euronews15d
Video. Watch Hong Kong's first locally born pandas debut at Ocean Park
Excited visitors have lined up at Hong Kong’s Ocean Park to witness giant panda Ying Ying reunite with her playful and growing cubs. The public is now invited to take part in a competition to ...
CNN15d
Iguanas floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — across the Pacific Ocean, eventually arriving in Fiji, according to a new study. Using genetic evidence, researchers propose that these iguanas made ...
CNN15d
How did iguanas get to Fiji? Chances are, they floated nearly 5,000 miles on vegetation rafts
one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — across the Pacific Ocean, eventually arriving in Fiji, according to a new study. Using genetic evidence, researchers propose that these iguanas made ...
Live Science15d
Drake Passage: The 'most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe' — where waves reach up to 80 feet
The passage is "the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe," Alfred Lansing wrote in his 1959 book "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic."At around 600 miles (965 kilometers ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation16d
After six disasters, Vanuatu's biggest challenge is survival
a horseshoe-shaped tectonic belt of volcanoes that borders the Pacific Ocean and one of the most seismically active zone in the world. As a result, Vanuatu regularly experiences frequent ...
The Independent17d
Iguanas likely crossed Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
That journey is thought to be a record — further than any other land-dwelling vertebrate has ever traveled on the ocean. Scientists think that's how iguanas got to the Galapagos Islands off of ...