Chocolate is on track to go extinct in 40 years

Cacao plants could disappear by 2050, so companies like Mars are teaming up with scientists to save them.

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This Striking Orangutan Photo Highlights a Grim Reality

The thought-provoking portrait took the grand prize in the 2017 Nature Photographer of the Year Contest.

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Secret writing in mummy cases revealed

Researchers in London have developed scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from.

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It's So Cold Outside That Sharks Are Actually Freezing to Death

As climate change ushers in another year of extreme global temperatures—a phenomenon President Trump seems a little confused about—cities up and down the East Coast are facing record-breaking snowfall and subzero temperatures. But while city dwellers might be able to hide indoors and crank up the heat, some animals aren't so lucky. According to the Cape Cod–based Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, it's gotten so cold that sharks in the area have been washing up on the shore and essentially freezing to death. This week, the organization responded to three thresher sharks that likely suffered "cold shock" in the surrounding waters.

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The Top 7 Climate Findings of 2017

Research breakthroughs astound scientists. By Chelsea Harvey.

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Fish, Farm, or Fight

A new study is examining how Vikings adapted to climate change. By Zach Zorich.

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Big money is backing out of fossil fuel industry, moving into greener alternatives

“The fossil fuel industry, which has been an awful good business for the last 200 years, isn't a good business going forward. And the smart money is heading for the exits now,” says environmentalist Bill McKibben.

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