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


There is a remote valley deep in the Sahara where dozens of ancient whales lie…

The ocean sunfish can carry more than forty kinds of parasite at once, and the way it…

Singapore has almost no fresh water of its own and buys much of it under a deal that…

In 2020 scientists tracking a beaked whale logged a dive that seemed physically…

The river that carved the Grand Canyon and waters tens of millions rarely finishes its…

Ethiopia answered deforestation with a single, almost unbelievable day of collective…

Around 300 million years ago, giant dragonfly-like insects hunted over ancient…

By the 1950s war had stripped South Korea's hills bare, and few believed the forests…

Every owner knows the dog head-tilt, but which dogs do it most turns out to be telling

A 2019 experiment challenged the old idea that cats are aloof and indifferent to their…
