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A 2,000-Page Lubricant for Keystone XL

WASHINGTON — The State Department issued a revised environmental impact statement for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, which makes no recommendation about whether the project should be built but presents no conclusive environmental reason it should not be. The lengthy document also draws no conclusions on whether the pipeline is in the United [...]

As asteroid whizzes by, surprise meteor makes an impact over Russia

The meteor that passed through Russian skies on Friday was the largest to reach Earth in a century. Its explosion was brighter than the sun and powerful enough to send damaging shockwaves to the Earth’s surface. Other meteors have impacted the world in big and small ways.

It was a day when the Earth was caught in a cosmic crossfire. The big rock came from the south, the smaller one from the east. They were unrelated objects, with different orbits, one the size of an apartment building, the other slimmer but with better aim. The larger asteroid missed by 17,000 miles, as [...]