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Antarctic daily sea ice Jan 1st 2024

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Earth wouldn’t have ice caps without eroding rocks and quiet volcanoes

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation for why they sometimes form

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A ridge in south-east Sicily that was eroded by the megaflood

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Sicily's hills were 40 metres below water during Earth's megaflood

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Mars may have a solid inner core like Earth does

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The town of Colonnata (Italy), which lies beneath marble quarries in the Apuan Alps. Colonnata is famous for the lard produced there, and for being inhabited by marble quarrymen.

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Incredible images tell the tale of the world’s most prized marble

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Are vast amounts of hydrogen fuel hidden below Earth's surface?

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MILTON, ON - APRIL 13: Professor Tim Patterson of Carleton University transports a frozen core sample at Crawford Lake on April 13, 2023 in Milton, Ontario. Patterson is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group and has been conducting research based on frozen core samples from the lake. He is among a group of scientists who think we have entered a new geological epoch. (Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but the idea lives on

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Stalagmites at Oregon Caves National Monument

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What ancient stalagmites can tell us about life on a hotter Earth

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Eruption of Mauna Loa on 8 December 2022

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Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in advance

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

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Mt. Everest

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How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

Rapid erosion caused by a geological act of “piracy” tens of thousands of years ago may have raised Earth’s crust and elevated Mount Everest by as much as 50 metres

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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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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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