Despite fossil fuel use driving a climate crisis, new fields are still in development. Pxhere

We should ban all new oil and gas fields

If we want to limit global warming to below 2°C, most of our untapped fossil fuel reserves need to be kept in the ground.
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How did the moon end up where it is?

Though it’s fairly straightforward to locate the Earth’s moon in space today, there is a fundamental gap in our understanding of how it got there.
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From terraforming to finding aliens, a geophysicist explains

The Conversation organised a public question-and-answer session on Reddit in which David Waltham, reader in mathematical geology at Royal Holloway in London, explained what makes Earth so special and what…

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