How long will life on Earth last?
All things must pass. That includes life on Earth, which will surely be wiped out eventually. But how long does it have? Image: Image Editor
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How Earth’s poles went walkabout
Stick a penny to the edge of a spinning top and its axis of rotation will shift. Now evidence is emerging that something similar may have happened more than once to the Earth. Image: FlyingSinger
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How El Niño slows the Earth’s spin
El Niño has an immense impact on the weather, so great in fact that the ocean warming phenomenon actually makes the planet spin more slowly. Until now, though, no one knew why. Image: FlyingSinger
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Earth’s crust stretches just like pizza dough
You know how if you stretch pizza dough sometimes it will break right away and sometimes it will stretch and stretch? That, it turns out, is how the Gulf of California was formed. Image: VancityAllie
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