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The rise and fall of the world’s largest lake
The ancient Paratethys Sea once held more water than all of today’s lakes combined -
Giant diamonds may hold the key to superdeep earthquakes
Copious amounts of water are crucial to generating both -
Deadly river ‘earthquakes’ could be manageable
New techniques could help combat the flooding disasters triggered by sediment buildup -
NASA’s new fleet of satellites will offer insights into the wild cards of climate change
Missions mark resurgence for agency’s earth science division -
New Google effort uses cellphones to detect earthquakes
Android alerts will first run in New Zealand and Greece -
Microbes are siphoning massive amounts of carbon from Earth’s tectonic plates
Underground bacteria may be an overlooked factor in the deep carbon cycle -
Just 19% of Earth’s land is still ‘wild,’ analysis suggests
Study overturns the idea that humans are invariably bad for biodiversity -
Ancient Earth was a water world
Life and plate tectonics may have emerged on a planet drowned in water that was rejected by the mantle -
A technique to track Earth’s subtle movements with orbiting radars is heating up
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar data have transformed earth science -
Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before
With a surge in InSAR data, researchers are monitoring slipping faults, flowing ice, inflating volcanoes, and sinking croplands -
Ancient kauri trees capture last collapse of Earth’s magnetic field
Unleashed cosmic ray bombardment may have eaten up ozone, driving short-term climate swings -
Substance found in Antarctic ice may solve a martian mystery
Mineral jarosite suggests glaciers helped forge Mars’s dusty soil -
What might Earth’s next supercontinent look like? New study provides clues
Researchers say giant landmasses form at regular intervals in predictable locations -
Fossilized lightning bolts reveal when ancient storms struck
New geological dating system could show when glaciers retreated -
Human ‘stuff’ now outweighs all life on Earth
The mass of buildings and other infrastructure exceeds that of all trees, shrubs, and animals on the planet
