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Alaska's Roads are Melting

Thawing permafrost - the layer of soil that stays frozen year-round - is melting. Engineers have worked around this issue in the past but their methods could stop working.

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Scientists demonstrate a lab-sized version of a volcanic eruption - the kind that in real life, could spell doomsday for Earth.WWW

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Super Volcanoes

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