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


Many picture Everest as the last untouched wilderness, yet snow from near the summit…

The largest waterfall on Earth is hidden beneath the ocean between Greenland and…

We assume a cat's meow is simply how cats 'talk', but adult cats almost never meow at…

How did a country smaller than West Virginia go from one of the worst deforestation…

If Earth's 4.5-billion-year history were compressed into a single day, life would…

Every few years the entire humpback population of the South Pacific abandons its song…

Miyawaki forests are marketed as growing ten times faster than nature manages alone

Mount Olympus has been Greece's highest peak, the mythological seat of twelve gods, and…

In a cave 18 metres below the surface at Movile in Romania, sealed off from the outside…

When elephants play, they rapidly copy one another’s trunk and head movements
