A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

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You might think of ants as being everywhere all the time, but it turns out they live in nine distinct areas of the planet.

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If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global ... world’s new coastlines would look like. 8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The ...

There are thousands of bee species, both little and large Scientists have mapped the distribution of all 20,000 bee species on earth. The new global map of bees will help in the conservation of ...

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A 40th anniversary edition of Chen Kaige's classic 'Yellow Earth' adorns the lineup of China's Pingyao film festival.

For the first time, researchers have mapped the "biogeographic realms" where ants are found around the world, according to a paper in the online journal Nature Communications. The map shows the ...