As pandemic lockdowns forced humans into isolation, Earth's vegetation was thriving. The year 2020 was the greenest in modern satellite records from 2001 to 2020, according to a recent study published ...

The Earth system interacts and connects in unexpected ways—from the interactions of bacteria and rocks to the convective and tectonic processes that build mountains, from the core to the atmosphere, ...

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