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Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all across its barren surface, and bubbling with potential. This molten phase didn’t last very long. When it was less than 100 million years old, …

Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all across its barren surface, and bubbling with potential. This molten phase didn’t last very long. When it was less than 100 million years old, …

Earth was a broiling mass of lava and rock before it took the form that it has today, and scientists have for the first time discovered traces of that very early ‘proto Earth’, hidden away in the deepest and oldest rocks on our planet. The clues have survived some 4.5 billion years, so it’s an astonishing find. The international team …

With the isolation of winter approaching quickly, relief efforts are in high gear across two remote Native Alaskan towns in far southwest Alaska after a devastating storm surge plowed into the coast on Sunday, October 12. The water was pushed inland by fierce onshore winds associated with the remnants of Typhoon Halong, which had gained new life as a powerful …

More rain and wind were forecast Wednesday along the Alaska coast where two tiny villages were decimated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong and officials were scrambling to find shelter for more than 1,500 people driven from their homes. The weekend storm brought high winds and surf that battered the low-lying Alaska Native communities along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in the …

One person was dead and two were missing in western Alaska on Monday after the remnants of Typhoon Halong over the weekend brought hurricane-force winds and ravaging storm surges and floodwaters that swept some homes away, authorities said. More than 50 people had been rescued – some plucked from rooftops. Officials warned of a long road to recovery and a …

More than 30 people were rescued and three people remain unaccounted for in western Alaska after the remnants of Typhoon Halong brought hurricane-force winds and flooding strong enough to sweep away entire homes in coastal communities, authorities said. Rescue aircraft were sent to the tiny Alaskan villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, where there were reports of people possibly unaccounted for, …

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The remnants of a tropical storm brought flooding across parts of the Southwest on Saturday, prompting hundreds of evacuations in southwestern Colorado as mountain streams raged above their banks and crews toiled to protect property with sandbags. Hardest-hit areas included Vallecito Creek, where almost 400 homes were under an evacuation order north of a reservoir …

Giant impact structures, including the potential remains of ancient “protoplanets,” may be lurking deep beneath the surface of Mars, new research hints. The mysterious lumps, which have been perfectly preserved within the Red Planet’s immobile innards for billions of years, may date back to the beginning of the solar system. In a new study, published Aug. 28 in the journal …