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Earth may have had its water delivered by a vast cloud of vapour
Rather than getting its water from impacts, our planet may have drawn in water vapour after the sun boiled it off early icy asteroids
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We may have solved the mystery of what froze Earth’s inner core
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Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids
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Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet
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How ‘river piracy’ made Mount Everest grow even taller
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How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis
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Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph
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A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis
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Ambitious story of how life shapes Earth ends superb trilogy
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Epic images show old mines transformed into a library, lab and museum
Amazing images of an open-air library, underground lab and design museum show the reincarnation of dead mines, captured in a new book, 102 Things to Do With a Hole in the Ground
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Powerful shot of elephants eating garbage up for Earth Photo contest
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Why criticisms of the proposed Anthropocene epoch miss the point
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These photos show how a warmer climate is damaging Earth’s waters
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It’s time to accept that we are in the Anthropocene once and for all
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