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

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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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Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet

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Mt. Everest

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How ‘river piracy’ made Mount Everest grow even taller

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H7XCR8 Winter dawn over industrial chimneys with Seaward Kaikoura Range behind, Christchurch, New Zealand

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How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis

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Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph

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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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Red-winged parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus) natural pied mutant colour morph, landing in farmland to feed, Northern Territory, Australia.

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Ambitious story of how life shapes Earth ends superb trilogy

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25 Jinyun Quarries ? DnA_Design and Architecture

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Epic images show old mines transformed into a library, lab and museum

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Powerful shot of elephants eating garbage up for Earth Photo contest

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Why criticisms of the proposed Anthropocene epoch miss the point

A proposal to define the Anthropocene as a geological epoch was rejected this March, but humanity's impact on Earth is real, whether formalised or not, says Jan Zalasiewicz

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These photos show how a warmer climate is damaging Earth’s waters

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It’s time to accept that we are in the Anthropocene once and for all

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Mars’s gravitational pull may be strong enough to stir Earth’s oceans

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Surprise decision not to define the Anthropocene shocks scientists

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