Earth
Quakes prompt UK fracking operations to pause several times
A rash of recent earthquakes in Lancashire, UK has prompted fracking operations to halt temporarily on six separate occasions
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Weird rocks in Australia are a missing piece of the Grand Canyon
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Supercharged geothermal energy could power the planet
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Huge fossil-like scars of the Anthropocene mark walls of Russian mine
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Falling rocks can explode so hard that only nuclear weapons beat them
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Life may have begun on Earth 100 million years earlier than we thought
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Ancient natural nuclear reactors show how to store radioactive waste
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Asteroid strike may have forged the oldest rocks ever found on Earth
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Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years
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Another supervolcano in California is not as dormant as we thought
The Long Valley Caldera in east California unleashed a supervolcano eruption 760,000 years ago. Today it is quiet but it may have a few smaller eruptions left in it
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Methane ice and winds on Pluto make strange ‘sand’ dunes
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The curious fate of the eighth wonder of the world
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The volcanic eruption on Hawaii is now making an acidic fog
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The tides are getting stronger thanks to the shifting continents
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