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


Stonehenge is widely known as one of the oldest monumental stone structures in the…

Zealandia, the submerged continent geologists confirmed in 2017, is 94 percent…

New Zealand and New Caledonia are the only large fragments of Zealandia still poking…

A team led by Nick Mortimer at GNS Science in New Zealand spent two decades mapping the…

The Aztecs built an agricultural system in the 14th century that produced seven…

NOAA has placed an 82 per cent probability that El Niño will emerge in the central…

On 22 October 2017, a single lightning flash crossed five US states in 7.39 seconds…

Human creativity may have been forged by hardship rather than abundance

The Parker Solar Probe is still flying through the Sun's corona at 430,000 miles per…

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is now one of the largest wildlife sanctuaries in Europe…
