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Earth & Life
Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.


On August 12, for the first time in 28 months, the Moon's shadow will sweep across…

Finland is still rising out of the sea after the last ice age, so new land keeps…

For centuries the Dutch took land from the water, but between 2006 and 2019 they spent…

Deep beneath the ocean floor lies a strange form of ice that can literally catch fire

One night in 1986, a peaceful lake in Cameroon released an invisible cloud of carbon…

A study of 302 free-roaming Chernobyl dogs found two genetically distinct populations…

The Italians named it Devil's Valley because of the steam pouring straight out of the…

Wildfire smoke is made of particles large enough to scatter away blue light and let…

South Korea planted more than ten billion trees after the Korean War

Wildfires in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region nearly quadrupled in four days, from 16,700…
