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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
The town of Mawsynram in northeastern India receives roughly 11,872 millimetres of rain…
Centralia, Pennsylvania has burned underground since 1962, and the unsettling lesson…
A single cotton T-shirt requires approximately 2,700 litres of water to produce, the…
The most remote spot in the world is so remote that the nearest humans are often not on…
The icy surface of Europa is constantly crystallising and reforming in different places…
In September 2023 a mega-tsunami in Greenland sent tremors around the entire planet for…
A 2015 study put the planet's tree count at more than three trillion, while the Milky…
The Pacific Ocean is so vast that every continent, every island, and every desert on…
There is more freshwater locked inside the rocks of Earth's mantle than in every river…
A cheetah can go from a standstill to about 60 miles an hour in roughly three seconds…
