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The Earth's interior is cooling faster than expected
4.5 billion years ago, the Earth was covered with molten rock (magma) deep in the ocean, creating extreme temperatures common on its surface.
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How does the earth breathe CO2?
This graphic by a researcher at the Max Planck Institute shows how plants on Earth take in and release carbon with each season.
Space science
Earth creatures born in 'alien-like' horror place
Bathed in ultraviolet (UV) rays 10 times more deadly than Earth is today, the small group of creatures continued to survive and evolve for several billion years - they w…
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Humans are living on a super-Earth without a 'Ring Sun'?
Dense rings of dust around a Sun that look nothing like the Sun today have prevented our planet from evolving into a super-Earth.
Space science
In the belly of the Earth there is a 'hell' born from another planet
Australian scientists have come up with a shocking explanation for the extremely low-velocity region inside the Earth - another world with a giant ocean of magma, made u…
Space science
Is Earth a 'mutant' planet?
NASA scientists admit they have only found planets with some characteristics similar to Earth.
Environment
People still don't know the globe
It is estimated that about 500,000 islands are large and small, but only about 2% have people living regularly.
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101 interesting things about the earth (Term 1)
We live on a sphere full of strange and unique things. In essence, it is not a sphere, but a wild planet, looming with eroded volcanoes, shaken by earthquakes.