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Eruption of Mauna Loa on 8 December 2022

Earth

Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in advance

An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed an unknown magma reservoir within the volcano, which could extend forecasts of eruptions from minutes to months

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Life

Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock

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Mt. Everest

Earth

How ‘river piracy’ made Mount Everest grow even taller

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Earth

Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph

Regulars

Earth

Earthquakes may explain how huge gold nuggets form in quartz rock

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A colourised, microscopic image of a 4.4 billion-year-old zircon

Life

We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought

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Earth

Record-breaking drill core reaches 1.2 kilometres into Earth’s mantle

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Earth

Why criticisms of the proposed Anthropocene epoch miss the point

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GeoExplorersClub Variegated Landscapes Of The Madygen Geopark GeoExplorersClub Madygen Formation

Earth

Can these awesome rocks become central Asia鈥檚 first UNESCO Geopark?

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3d rendered medically accurate illustration of amino acids

Life

Life鈥檚 vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock

Amino acids and other molecules important to the origin of life can be enriched within networks of rocky fractures, which would have been common on the early Earth

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Environment

Spreading rock dust on farms boosts crop yields and captures CO2

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Earth

Why supersonic, diamond-spewing volcanoes might be coming back to life

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Earth

Surprise decision not to define the Anthropocene shocks scientists

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Earth

Bacteria could help turn CO2 to rock under extreme conditions

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