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Two days after Christmas, the Times journalists Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee set sail from Christchurch, New Zealand, on a ...

Over the course of a couple days in September 2005—amidst a flurry of volcanic eruptions and hundreds of earthquakes—the ground in northeast Ethiopia split wide open. For millions of years, a bubble ...

A garbage patch is a large area of human-produced debris usually trapped by a circulating ocean current called a gyre. Every ocean has at least one garbage patch. Garbage patches also accumulate in ...