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The Cumbre Vieja volcano eruption, spewing lava

Environment

La Palma volcano eruption: Warning signs may have been there for years

Over the past decade, minuscule land movements and strange chemical signals may have been clues that the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma island was going to erupt

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The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic field

Space

The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic field

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icebergs

Earth

Iceland may be part of a submerged continent called Icelandia

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Venus has huge land masses that jostle about like Earth's continents

Space

Venus has huge land masses that jostle about like Earth's continents

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Inside the race to rescue clues to Earth’s past from melting glaciers

Earth

Inside the race to rescue clues to Earth’s past from melting glaciers

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Rock at

Environment

Climate change is speeding up the degradation of ancient rock art

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Sardines

Earth

Japanese bay full of fish scales could mark start of the Anthropocene

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Earth’s land may have formed 500 million years earlier than we thought

Earth

Earth’s land may have formed 500 million years earlier than we thought

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The Triassic period

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The Triassic period

Sound waves from fin whale songs could help us study Earth’s crust

Earth

Sound waves from fin whale songs could help us study Earth’s crust

Seismologists studying earthquake activity off the US coast recorded fin whale songs, which they found can be used to tell the thickness and makeup of Earth’s crust

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Technology

Plants that suck metals from the soil can be farmed to make our tech

Features

Earth

How geology can help steer us to a more sustainable future

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Space

There are weird volcanoes everywhere we look in the solar system

Features

Earth

Plate tectonics may have begun a billion years earlier than thought

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