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Earth

Fear and trembling, from The Great Quake to Quakeland

Detail or range? Two new books offer very different approaches to the fascinating and violent world of earthquake science

Culture

Mysterious lights in the sky seen after Mexico’s huge earthquake

Earth

Mysterious lights in the sky seen after Mexico’s huge earthquake

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Hottest place

Earth

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

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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

The zone of mantle rock that sits 400 to 600 kilometres below our feet seems to be saturated with water

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Earth

The day Mount St Helens erupted and I should have died

Features

Earth

Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep

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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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