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We know of no other planet like Earth. The Earth sciences, which include geology, hydrology and atmospheric science, have helped us uncover the 4.5-billion-year history of our home. Explore the mysteries of our planet and learn its diverse natural wonders with our expert coverage.

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Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids

Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by Robin George Andrew shows how science plans to save the planet

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D5YXF5 A Meteor glowing as it enters the Earth's atmosphere

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Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship

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Endurance THE DISCOVERY OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY SHIP By John Shears and Nico Vincent

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Some wildfires are growing twice as fast as they did two decades ago

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Folklore uncovers a tsunami that rocked Hawaii hundreds of years ago

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El Niño pattern can bring wet weather to UK one year later

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Mt. Everest

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How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

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Why physicists are air-dropping buoys into the paths of hurricanes

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These maps will change how you see the world

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These maps will change how you see the world

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Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn

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Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn

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Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days

Seismologists were mystified by a strange signal that persisted for nine days in 2023 – now its source has been identified as a standing wave caused by a landslide in Greenland

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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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MH56FG View of Seoul city and autumn in Deoksugung palace

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A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis

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2TDDHCE Bob Givehchi, right, and his son Daniel, 8, Toronto residents visiting Miami for the first time, walk past debris and palm trees blowing in gusty winds, at Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables, Fla., Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. It's beginning to look at lot like?hurricane season, at least across much of South Florida, where it's been windy and rainy for two days and the forecast predicts more of the same this busy holiday season weekend. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Part of the Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why

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