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Danakil depression

Scorching hot springs house extreme life and a future ocean

29 November 2017

Three tectonic plates are gradually pulling apart at the Danakil depression in Ethiopia, creating a hot, acid environment that could provide clues to life on Mars
The Great Barrier Reef

'Super-spreader' coral could restore trashed Great Barrier Reef

28 November 2017

Most of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may well be destroyed in the next few decades, but hubs of resilient coral could make larvae to restore it all

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