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


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

There is a Japanese word, mottainai, that carries the sense of regret over discarding…

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

Sam Altman asked what problem people most hope AI will solve

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

Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and settles on…

Astronauts who walked on the moon reported that the dust tracked back into the lunar…
