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"Most people would think that these organisms are just like spores or dormant," James Tiedje said. "These microbes are active ...

Square-faced people are also known as "earth-faced" because they are down to earth and in tune with nature. They are also ...

As he sifts the earth they trod ... feral hogs in the deep swamp muck. We know this from Dan Sayers’ excavations and from Charlie the former maroon. He described whole families that had never ...

From Earth jurisprudence to committees for the future, there are plenty of positive examples of deep solutions. View on ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

This is probably the deepest recorded example of human activity changing the solid inner Earth. “To do something that would affect the [upper mantle] is like, whoa,” says Sylvain Barbot at the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new phylum of microbes, CSP1-3, has been discovered in the deep soil of Earth's Critical Zone, which plays a crucial role in water purification. These microbes ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Crater Lake, which is the deepest lake in the U.S., will be closed to boat tours and swimmers during the 2026, 2027, and 2028 summer seasons. This means that the upcoming summer 2025 season will ...