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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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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

Life

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

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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

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

Strange volcanoes called kimberlites bring diamonds up from Earth's depths. ��˾þ�s have always struggled to understand why they switched off millions of years ago – but perhaps they didn't

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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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We might officially enter the Anthropocene epoch in 2024

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