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Inside the race to rescue clues to Earth’s past from melting glaciers

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Inside the race to rescue clues to Earth’s past from melting glaciers

Glacial ice records all manner of precious information about the planet’s environmental history, but it is melting fast. The Ice Memory project is scrambling to extract samples for posterity before it’s too late

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Climate change is speeding up the degradation of ancient rock art

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Japanese bay full of fish scales could mark start of the Anthropocene

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Earth’s land may have formed 500 million years earlier than we thought

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Earth’s land may have formed 500 million years earlier than we thought

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The Triassic period

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The Triassic period

Sound waves from fin whale songs could help us study Earth’s crust

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Sound waves from fin whale songs could help us study Earth’s crust

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Plants that suck metals from the soil can be farmed to make our tech

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Plants that suck metals from the soil can be farmed to make our tech

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How geology can help steer us to a more sustainable future

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How geology can help steer us to a more sustainable future

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There are weird volcanoes everywhere we look in the solar system

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There are weird volcanoes everywhere we look in the solar system

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Japanese mountains

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Plate tectonics may have begun a billion years earlier than thought

Plate tectonics may have begun 4 billion years ago, almost a billion years earlier than we thought, according to a new analysis of ancient rocks

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Earth’s tectonic plates may have sped up three times in its past

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Ancient valleys on Mars may have been carved by glaciers

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We’ve finally figured out where Stonehenge’s giant boulders came from

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