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Why on Earth is the planet’s day getting shorter?
Quality Stock Arts/Shutterstock Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, August 5. That makes it one of the shortest days…
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Earth’s oceans once turned green – and they could change again
Were Earth’s oceans once green? 100Y Design/Shutterstock Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot…
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Plants struggled for millions of years after Earth’s worst climate catastrophe – new study
A king fern at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, Australia. Marcos Amores With the world on the threshold of 1.5°C of warming, one pressing question…
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Do aliens exist? We studied what scientists really think
PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We are…
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In the Arctic, planting more trees actually makes the world warmer
Sergey and Marina Pyataev / shutterstock Across much of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored, and global warming is reduced. That’s…
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Peace on earth doesn’t look very likely any time soon
They don’t make world leaders like they used to, as far as Vladimir Putin is concerned. Talking to a Kremlin-friendly gathering of journalists at his…
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Businesses that try to come clean about their impact on nature can end up concealing more than they reveal
Fahroni/Shutterstock Humans have overfished the ocean, cleared forests, polluted water and created a climate crisis by burning fossil fuels. These actions are affecting biodiversity around…
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What lunar caves tell us about the shared origins of the Earth and the Moon
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio / Ernie Wright Using radar, a Nasa spacecraft, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has confirmed the existence of caves beneath the lunar…
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If Earth gets sick, so do you
Alones/Shutterstock A hotter world is likely to be a sicker world. Earth’s growing fever has obvious repercussions for human health, like heatwaves that are hotter…
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Small but mighty, plankton are some of the most powerful creatures on Earth
Choksawatdikorn/Shutterstock If you go to the beach and dip a bucket in the sea, you might at first think it contains lifeless water. But examine…
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