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Mother Earth, Gaia, the third rock from the Sun - whatever you call it, this 4.5 billion-year-old planet is the one that we and all known living creatures call home.

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Dr Mark Broomfield By making air pollution interesting, perhaps Dieselgate did us a favour after all

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Science Focus Podcast What can the father of Gaia theory tell us about our future? – James Lovelock

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In what ways are humans making the Earth less habitable?

Exotic migratory birds identified in Peru’s mysterious Nazca lines © Getty Images

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Exotic migratory birds identified in Peru’s mysterious Nasca lines

Plastic waste: can reduce and recycle really make a difference? © Getty Images

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Reality Check How can I reduce the amount that ends up in landfill?

Neolithic burial from Çatalhöyük, Turkey, is represented by a headless young adult female with a fetal skeleton (arrow). Skull removal was a burial custom practiced in number of instances at this locality © Image courtesy of the Çatalhöyük Research Project/Jason Quinlan.

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First proto-urban communities experienced overcrowding, infection and violence

Salt distribution area at Khewra Salt mine Salt of the Earth © Luke Duggleby

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Salt of the Earth The mineral intimately tied to our lives and land

Ocean explorer completes deepest ever dive © Tamara Stubbs/Reeve Joliffe/Five Deeps Expedition

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Ocean explorer completes deepest-ever dive in Mariana Trench

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Why are there two high tides per day?

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Why can’t we see the wind?

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Dr Mark Broomfield By making air pollution interesting, perhaps Dieselgate did us a favour after all

Why are some icebergs green?

Evidence of brutal 33,000-year-old murder found on fossilised skull

Science Focus Podcast Can we really predict when doomsday will happen?

Science Focus Podcast What can the father of Gaia theory tell us about our future? – James Lovelock

In what ways are humans making the Earth less habitable?

Exotic migratory birds identified in Peru’s mysterious Nasca lines

Reality Check How can I reduce the amount that ends up in landfill?

First proto-urban communities experienced overcrowding, infection and violence

Salt of the Earth The mineral intimately tied to our lives and land

Ocean explorer completes deepest-ever dive in Mariana Trench

Why are there two high tides per day?

Why can’t we see the wind?

Could geoengineering cause a climate war?

Planet Earth

Dr Mark Broomfield | By making air pollution interesting, perhaps Dieselgate did us a favour after all

Science Focus Podcast | Can we really predict when doomsday will happen?

Science Focus Podcast | What can the father of Gaia theory tell us about our future? – James Lovelock

Reality Check | How can I reduce the amount that ends up in landfill?

Salt of the Earth | The mineral intimately tied to our lives and land

Dr Mark Broomfield By making air pollution interesting, perhaps Dieselgate did us a favour after all

Science Focus Podcast Can we really predict when doomsday will happen?

Science Focus Podcast What can the father of Gaia theory tell us about our future? – James Lovelock

Reality Check How can I reduce the amount that ends up in landfill?

Salt of the Earth The mineral intimately tied to our lives and land