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Fracking plant

Earth

Quakes prompt UK fracking operations to pause several times

A rash of recent earthquakes in Lancashire, UK has prompted fracking operations to halt temporarily on six separate occasions

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Grand Canyon

Earth

Weird rocks in Australia are a missing piece of the Grand Canyon

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Iceland landscape

Earth

Supercharged geothermal energy could power the planet

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fossil

Earth

Huge fossil-like scars of the Anthropocene mark walls of Russian mine

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rock fall

Earth

Falling rocks can explode so hard that only nuclear weapons beat them

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Life may have begun on Earth 100 million years earlier than we thought

Earth

Life may have begun on Earth 100 million years earlier than we thought

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Nuclear waste

Physics

Ancient natural nuclear reactors show how to store radioactive waste

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Old rock

Earth

Asteroid strike may have forged the oldest rocks ever found on Earth

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Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years

Environment

Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years

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Another supervolcano in California is not as dormant as we thought

Environment

Another supervolcano in California is not as dormant as we thought

The Long Valley Caldera in east California unleashed a supervolcano eruption 760,000 years ago. Today it is quiet but it may have a few smaller eruptions left in it

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Space

Methane ice and winds on Pluto make strange 'sand' dunes

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Earth

The curious fate of the eighth wonder of the world

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Earth

The volcanic eruption on Hawaii is now making an acidic fog

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Earth

The tides are getting stronger thanks to the shifting continents

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