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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
A queen honeybee can live for several years, while worker bees may live for only six…
Earth’s inner core is an iron-rich ball as hot as the surface of the Sun, kept solid…
The total weight of all the ants on Earth roughly rivals the combined weight of all…
Antarctica is classified as a desert because it receives less precipitation than the…
The trails of ants marching along your skirting board are drawn in scent, not sight
Roughly 90% of hard cheese made in the United States is now set with an enzyme grown in…
Around 252 million years ago, volcanoes across what is now Siberia erupted repeatedly…
A rare meteorite examined in 2026 revealed evidence of a Moon-sized world that orbited…
Earth’s inner core is not rock but a sphere of solid iron-rich metal, smaller than the…
Large parts of Antarctica were once covered in temperate forest, and fossilised wood…
