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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
Since 1978, China has planted 66 billion trees to hold back two deserts, and the…
When the Dutch ship Roggeveen anchored off Easter Island on Easter Sunday 1722, its…
A gray wolf's rear teeth can generate more than twice the bite force of a domestic…
Explorers who lowered themselves into a Vietnamese cave found a passage so vast it…
When the sun, moon and Earth line up at new and full moon, their tidal pulls stack into…
In 1960, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent a 26-year-old English secretary named Jane…
The Earth's inner core grows by roughly a millimetre a year as molten iron freezes onto…
Gold, platinum and most of Earth's heavy metals sank into the core as the young planet…
Dogs do not see the world in black and white
A park ranger lowered himself into an Australian canyon expecting to document an…
