Earth
The day Mount St Helens erupted and I should have died
But for a chance decision, Don Swanson would have been killed in the Mount St Helens eruption of 1980. That day changed his life, and volcanology, forever
Features
Earth
Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep
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Environment
3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea
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Earth
Early Earth was covered in a global ocean and had no mountains
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Earth
Map of the underworld may let us play plate tectonics in reverse
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Earth
Warming drives Alaskan glacier to its lowest point in 900 years
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Earth
Rock solid evidence of Anthropocene seen in 208 minerals we made
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Earth
Volcanoes: Oxford exhibition gives the fiery inside story
Culture
Earth
Secrets of Earth’s birth carried in lava jets from planet’s core
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Earth
Simple equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet
The impact of industrialised societies on Earth has been described in a mathematical formula that should scare us all, says Owen Gaffney
Opinion
Earth
Everest is not the world’s tallest mountain 鈥� and here’s why
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Earth
Long-lost continent found submerged deep under Indian Ocean
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Earth
Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle
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Earth
Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago
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