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Earth & Life
Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
Antarctic ice holds 800,000 years of Earth's atmosphere in frozen bubbles
Extinction crises follow no predictable schedule, fossil record shows
Weather satellites extended forecast accuracy from two days to ten
Siberian volcanic extinction mechanism reappearing in modern oceans
Woolly mammoths vanished suddenly from remote island despite thriving population
Spiders consume as much prey annually as humanity eats meat and fish
Elephant trunks pack 90,000 muscles into boneless precision tools
Amazon River moves more water than all other rivers combined
Ocean heat hit a record for the ninth year in a row, the longest streak ever
Earth home to 10 quintillion insects, roughly 1.2 billion per person
