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Earth may have had its water delivered by a vast cloud of vapour
The sun may have created a vast mass of water gas by heating asteroids ESA/Hubble Copyright: NASA, ESA,…
We may have solved the mystery of what froze Earth’s inner core
How did Earth’s inner core freeze solid? Rost9/Shutterstock A high concentration of carbon within Earth’s inner core could…
How to Kill an Asteroid review: Hollywood fantasy vs the real science of saving Earth
A meteor burns up as it nears Earth, unlike asteroids that can hit the surface and wreak havoc James Blake/Falklands…
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…
The Burning Earth review: How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis
Industrial smoke rises near New Zealand’s Kaikoura mountains Colin Monteath/Minden Pictures/Alamy The Burning EarthSunil Amrith (Allen Lane (UK);…
Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph
Cave diver exploring Chan Aktun Ha Martin Broen The Yucatán peninsula in south-east Mexico is riddled with holes.…
Becoming Earth review: A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis
Seoul’s gingko trees help absorb the carbon dioxide produced by traffic khanh nghia tran/Alamy Becoming EarthFerris Jabr (Picador…
Living on Earth review: Ambitious story of how life shapes Earth ends superb trilogy
Australia’s red-winged parrot feeding in fields in the Northern Territory Roland Seitre/naturepl.com Living On EarthPeter Godfrey-Smith (William Collins (UK,…
Why criticisms of the proposed Anthropocene epoch miss the point
The concept of the Anthropocene was born at a scientific meeting in Mexico in 2000, conjured by chemist…
These photos show how a warmer climate is damaging Earth’s waters
In her new book, Entropy, photographer Diane Tuft explores the damage that a warmer climate will have on…