World’s Oldest Tree Discovered

The world’s oldest living tree, a 9,550-year-old spruce, has been discovered in Sweden’s Dalarna province, a university professor said. Umea University Professor Leif Kullman said the discovery was made under the crown of a spruce on Fulu Mountain in central Sweden where scientists found four “generations” of spruce remains in the form of cones […]

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Major Earthquake Kills Three in Western Indonesia

Three were killed and 25 others injured in a major earthquake that shook Western Indonesia on Wednesday afternoon, officials in the country told CNN. The magnitude 7.5 quake’s epicenter was about 195 miles (315 km), South-Southeast of Banda Aceh, on the Indonesian island of Simeulue, the U.S. Geological survey said. The 2004 earthquake near […]

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