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The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, has been covered in an unexpected layer of snow. In this area, rain is ...
Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...
A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...
This is Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo’s monument to American automotive excess and possibly the only place in Texas where spray painting someone else’s property isn’t just legal—it’s encouraged.
Essentially, gas pistoning is a shallow, degassing-driven rise and fall of a lava surface. Often these pistons occur in ...
Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...
Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
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Starlink already accounts for 40% of all the satellites ever launched, and each one releases harmful aluminum oxides when ...
Northern peatlands could seriously complicate efforts to cool the planet, especially after a temporary overshoot of the 1.5°C ...
New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...