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The body of a 41-year-old ski mountaineer has been recovered after he fell over 3,000 feet off of Mount McKinley, the tallest ...

The $6 trillion discovery has challenged existing geological theories about how Earth's richest iron ore deposits formed.

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The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará ...