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geology

Hottest place

Earth

The hottest place ever recorded on Earth's surface was 2370°C

When a rock from space crashed to ground 38 million years ago, it briefly heated the impact zone to 2370°C, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth’s crust

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desert

Earth

Stripy ponds in the Utah desert help green the bone-dry land

Regulars

volcano eruption

Earth

Taking Earth’s pulse: How to predict eruptions from space

Features

drilling site in Lancashire

Earth

The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

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The tip of a submerged continent

Earth

Voyage to study Earth’s mostly submerged hidden continent begins

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Waves in water

Earth

Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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Underwater sand dunes

Earth

Earth's underwater dunes help explain Venus's weird surface

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Drawing of ringwoodite crystal structure

Earth

There’s as much water in Earth’s mantle as in all the oceans

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Don Swanson

Earth

The day Mount St Helens erupted and I should have died

Features

Icy landscape

Earth

Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep

A freshwater layer up to 2 kilometres deep floated on our planet’s oceans for some 50,000 years after the end of an extreme ice age

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Life

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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