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


Demographers estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been…

The modern potato traces back to an ancient chance encounter between a wild tomato and…

The last missing royal tomb of Ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, belonging to a…

When a team led by Rozenn Pineau sequenced more than 500 tissue samples from across…

Singapore has the highest green cover of any major city on Earth at 47 per cent…

Around 640,000 years ago, the ground beneath Yellowstone blasted out more than 1,000…

When mountain lions began appearing more often on trail cameras at a small California…

A black coral colony discovered in the fjords of New Zealand has been growing for an…

For more than a decade the benchmark for human heat survival has been a wet-bulb…

Earth’s inner core may have quietly reversed course
