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Environment

Seismic boom may explain why 2018 Palu earthquake was so devastating

More than 2000 people died when an earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia last year. A seismic boom may explain why it was unusually devastating

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Curiosity

Space

We’ve hacked the Curiosity rover to learn how mountains form on Mars

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This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

Environment

This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

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Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon

Space

Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon

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Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

Space

Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

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Dickinsonia fossil

Life

In the beginning: The full story of life on Earth can finally be told

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Jura mountains

Earth

Dan Holdsworth captures a vanishing landscape in a point-cloud

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We kill 60 billion chickens a year, and their bones get preserved by landfill

Environment

When humans are wiped from Earth, the chicken bones will remain

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sampling sand in Greenland

Earth

Huge 30-kilometre wide meteorite crater found under Greenland glacier

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Pulpit Rock, Norway

Earth

Timefulness review – our impulsive and pugnacious age needs geology

If you want to save Earth, argues a new book, quit sitting around in the present hoping for the best and learn to think really long term, like a geologist

Culture

Earth

Quakes prompt UK fracking operations to pause several times

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Earth

Weird rocks in Australia are a missing piece of the Grand Canyon

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Earth

Supercharged geothermal energy could power the planet

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Earth

Huge fossil-like scars of the Anthropocene mark walls of Russian mine

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