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Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
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…
Writing a single 100-word email with ChatGPT consumes approximately the volume of a…
A sloth can take up to 30 days to digest a single leaf, the slowest recorded digestion…
Sequoia and redwood trees alive today were already mature when the Roman Empire was at…
