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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
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…
A woodpecker slams its beak into solid wood twenty times a second, and the surprising…
The 24-hour day is not fixed but slowly stretching, and in the dinosaurs' time it was…
Several major cities are now close enough to running out of water that officials have…
Koalas are the only non-primates with true fingerprints, and theirs are so close to a…
The metal-rich nodules that mining firms hope to hoover off the deep-sea floor grow…
Almost every nation pumps more carbon into the air than it removes, but one small…
Elephants appear to call each other by name
