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Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust.

Study pinpoints timing of Chicxulub asteroid impact

“Volcanic winter” likely contributed to ecological catastrophe 250 million years ago

The world’s oldest mercury poisoning revealed in Copper Age Iberia

Researchers present evidence that a cosmic impact destroyed a biblical city in the Jordan Valley

Extreme volcanism did not cause the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous

Pictograms are first written accounts of earthquakes in pre-Hispanic Mexico

Ancient meteorite found in England could reveal the origins of life on Earth

Comet strike may have sparked key shift in human civilization

The ‘Great Dying’

New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought

Human land use wasn’t always at nature’s expense

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