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It's that time of the year again, when the night sky lights up with meteors as part of the Geminid meteor shower. This year, the meteor shower runs from Dec. 4 to Dec. 17, peaking on the night of Dec. Source

HALIFAX -- A conservation group has selected two sites in Nova Scotia where it could establish a kind of ocean retirement home for beluga whales raised in captivity. After three years of searching, the U.S. Source

MOSCOW -- An unmanned Russian supply ship carrying tons of supplies to the International Space Station has blasted off to the orbiting laboratory. The Progress MS-13 cargo ship lifted off Friday atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russian space complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Source

For years, Pablo Escobar's brother worked as an accountant in the brutal Medellín Cartel as it reinvented the global cocaine trade. Now, he's got his eyes set on a new market to disrupt: smartphones. Source

Sue O'Brien gets anxious — "shaky," she said — as soon as a storm is in the forecast. "We call it PTSD, and I don't think that's a stretch," she admitted. "As soon as the winds start … you start getting really worried. Source

MADRID -- Climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived by train in Madrid, where a global UN-sponsored climate change conference is underway. The Swedish teen is scheduled to join thousands of other young people later on Friday in a march to demand negotiators and politicians take real action in tackling the planet's rising temperatures. Source

MADRID -- Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Madrid Friday to join thousands of other young people in a march to demand world leaders take real action against climate change. After making it through a swarm of media cameras and microphones at the Spanish capital's northern train station, the Swedish teen posted an ironic tweet saying that she had "successfully managed to sneak into Madrid. Source

MADRID -- Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Madrid Friday to join thousands of other young people in a march to demand world leaders take real action against climate change. After making it through a swarm of media cameras and microphones at the Spanish capital's northern train station, the Swedish teen posted an ironic tweet saying that she had "successfully managed to sneak into Madrid. Source

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Virgin Galactic is on the verge of making more history in 2020 following an "incredible" year of progress, the chief executive of billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism venture said Thursday. CEO George Whitesides said this year was marked by milestone after milestone. Source

More than half a million hermit crabs have been killed after becoming trapped by plastic pollution on two remote islands, a new study from the University of Tasmania found. Research teams estimated that about 508,000 of the crustaceans have been killed in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean and about 61,000 on Henderson Island in the Pacific after getting stuck in debris such as plastic bottles, which researchers said served as "deadly traps. Source