It is perhaps the single biggest factor determining how Svalbard reindeer will fare as the planet warms ... but White 78 stands up and walks away, down the slope, across the snowmobile highway ...

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A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles.

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, ...