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The Paris Agreement on climate change was dealt a big blow when Donald Trump announced he wanted to take the US out of it. But the world can and will move on. New Scientist looks at the reality of ...

Dirt doesn't burn': The people rebuilding their homes with earth These people are rebuilding homes lost to wildfires in the western US – only this time they are using a material that they hope ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

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An asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s ...

Around the world in 57 days. A new moon is expected to be pulled into the Earth’s orbit by the end of September, but the rare ...

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