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Frozen Planet II review: David Attenborough's sequel dazzles

The spectre of climate change hangs over David Attenborough’s follow-up to Frozen Planet, while two new nature documentary series, Epic Adventures With Bertie Gregory and Super/Natural, are no match for the veteran presenter

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A Frozen Planet II team set up to film inside a mountain glacier in Iceland

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Earthquakes seem to come in a more predictable pattern than we thought

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Firefighters spray foam on a fire after an earthquake in Napa, California, in 2014

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A second asteroid may have struck Earth when the dinosaurs died out

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The hunt for hidden impact craters that could reveal Earth’s deep past

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The hunt for hidden impact craters that could reveal Earth’s deep past

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B75861 Iron Pyrite Fools Gold. Image shot 01/2009. Exact date unknown.

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Reclassification of Earth's minerals reveals 4000 more than we thought

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP/Shutterstock (12997162o) Man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, . A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported Earthquake, Gayan, Afghanistan - 23 Jun 2022

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More than 950 killed in magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Afghanistan

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How long does evolution take? It happens on two different timescales

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by SpaceX/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock (10664346i) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard. NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX Demo-2 Historic Manned Launch, Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. - 30 May 2020

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Emissions from rocket launches could affect Earth's weather systems

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Dazzling photo of a pink salt lake shortlisted for major competition

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Dazzling photo of a pink salt lake shortlisted for major competition

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Vast reservoir of water discovered under the ice in Antarctica

Ice streams in Antarctica carry ice from the continent’s centre to the ocean, and there appears to be a huge amount of water buried beneath one, which may affect its flow

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View of the four-person team?s field camp on the Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica with the Transantarctic Mountains in the background.

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What are the mysterious continent-sized lumps deep inside Earth?

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All four of the key DNA building blocks have been found in meteorites

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30 by 30: The conservation breakthrough we need to save biodiversity

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AI strips out city noise to improve earthquake monitoring systems

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