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Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock

Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the earliest forms of life on Earth

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Mt. Everest

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How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

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Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph

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Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph

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Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in quartz rock

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A colourised, microscopic image of a 4.4 billion-year-old zircon

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We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought

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Record-breaking drill core reaches 1.2 kilometres into Earth's mantle

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Why criticisms of the proposed Anthropocene epoch miss the point

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Why criticisms of the proposed Anthropocene epoch miss the point

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GeoExplorersClub Variegated Landscapes Of The Madygen Geopark GeoExplorersClub Madygen Formation

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Can these awesome rocks become central Asia’s first UNESCO Geopark?

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3d rendered medically accurate illustration of amino acids

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Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock

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Spreading crushed basalt rock on a field in England

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Spreading rock dust on farms boosts crop yields and captures CO2

We already have evidence that rock dust can remove carbon dioxide from the air – now there are signs that spreading the dust on farm fields also enhances crop growth

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Why supersonic, diamond-spewing volcanoes might be coming back to life

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Surprise decision not to define the Anthropocene shocks scientists

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Bacteria could help turn CO2 to rock under extreme conditions

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Enormous underwater mountains discovered off west coast of Americas

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