For the first time, the US military shared an orbital selfie from its mysterious X-37B space plane, which captured Earth from ...

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Earth Commission Report1 provides major new insights into the potential for the transgression of Earth-system boundaries ...

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Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

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Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

the words "help," "LAPD," and "federal" are seen written out with debris among dumpsters and trash on Google Earth and Google Maps. The word "trafico" is also written on the land, sparking ...

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