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

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

Magnitude isn’t the only demonstration of an earthquake’s power. For centuries, mysterious lights have popped up in the wake of strong quakes

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Hottest place

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

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desert

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

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volcano eruption

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

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drilling site in Lancashire

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

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The tip of a submerged continent

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Voyage to study Earth’s mostly submerged hidden continent begins

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Waves in water

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Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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Underwater sand dunes

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

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Drawing of ringwoodite crystal structure

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

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Don Swanson

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The day Mount St Helens erupted and I should have died

But for a chance decision, Don Swanson would have been killed in the Mount St Helens eruption of 1980. That day changed his life, and volcanology, forever

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Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep

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3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea

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Early Earth was covered in a global ocean and had no mountains

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Map of the underworld may let us play plate tectonics in reverse

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