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Earth's Underground Fungal Network Could Stretch A Billion Times Farther Than The Distance To The SunAn image of a Mycelial network digitally colored to show its extension. It is made up of purple connections expanding in various directions, with the thicker shoots having a more yellow color.

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Earth's Underground Fungal Network Could Stretch A Billion Times Farther Than The Distance To The SunAn image of a Mycelial network digitally colored to show its extension. It is made up of purple connections expanding in various directions, with the thicker shoots having a more yellow color.
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Earth's Underground Fungal Network Could Stretch A Billion Times Farther Than The Distance To The Sun

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Ayalon Cave Was Cut Off From Sunlight And Rainwater For Millions Of Years. So How Did Life Survive?Ayalon Cave

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Ayalon Cave Was Cut Off From Sunlight And Rainwater For Millions Of Years. So How Did Life Survive?Ayalon Cave
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Ayalon Cave Was Cut Off From Sunlight And Rainwater For Millions Of Years. So How Did Life Survive?

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Burial, Cremation, Embalming: Is The Way We Do Death Harming Earth’s Ecosystems?dead mans fingers growing out of the ground

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Burial, Cremation, Embalming: Is The Way We Do Death Harming Earth’s Ecosystems?dead mans fingers growing out of the ground
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Burial, Cremation, Embalming: Is The Way We Do Death Harming Earth’s Ecosystems?

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Three Ancient Ecosystems Dating To 300 Million Years Ago Unearthed Beneath IllinoisA fossil of a Tully Monster, a strange and mysterious sea creature that lived more than 300 million years ago, found at the Mazon Fossil bed.

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Three Ancient Ecosystems Dating To 300 Million Years Ago Unearthed Beneath IllinoisA fossil of a Tully Monster, a strange and mysterious sea creature that lived more than 300 million years ago, found at the Mazon Fossil bed.
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Three Ancient Ecosystems Dating To 300 Million Years Ago Unearthed Beneath Illinois

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Salmon Make Some Of The Most Epic Migrations In Nature. Why Do They Bother?A red sockeye salmon jumps up the Brooks Falls amid a gang of hungry brown bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska.

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Salmon Make Some Of The Most Epic Migrations In Nature. Why Do They Bother?A red sockeye salmon jumps up the Brooks Falls amid a gang of hungry brown bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska.
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Salmon Make Some Of The Most Epic Migrations In Nature. Why Do They Bother?

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Why Whale Wee Is Crucial To Healthy OceansHumpback whale swimming underwater

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Why Whale Wee Is Crucial To Healthy OceansHumpback whale swimming underwater
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Why Whale Wee Is Crucial To Healthy Oceans

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“Exceptional” 320-Million-Year-Old Fossil Ecosystem Could Hold Earliest Signs Insects Laid Eggsarticle image

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“Exceptional” 320-Million-Year-Old Fossil Ecosystem Could Hold Earliest Signs Insects Laid Eggsarticle image
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“Exceptional” 320-Million-Year-Old Fossil Ecosystem Could Hold Earliest Signs Insects Laid Eggs

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What Is The Oldest Ecosystem On Earth?Aerial photo of river in amazon rainforest jungle in Peru

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What Is The Oldest Ecosystem On Earth?Aerial photo of river in amazon rainforest jungle in Peru
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What Is The Oldest Ecosystem On Earth?

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Whale Falls: How Dead Whales Go On To Feed An Entire EcosystemA whale fall being feasted on.

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Whale Falls: How Dead Whales Go On To Feed An Entire EcosystemA whale fall being feasted on.
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Whale Falls: How Dead Whales Go On To Feed An Entire Ecosystem

clock-iconFebruary 22, 2024
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Alien Earthworms Are Already Here, And They’re Threatening EcosystemsEarthworms (Eisenia foetida)

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Alien Earthworms Are Already Here, And They’re Threatening EcosystemsEarthworms (Eisenia foetida)
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Alien Earthworms Are Already Here, And They’re Threatening Ecosystems

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Invasive Alien Species Pose A Major Global Threat To Wildlife And HumansMacro close up of a yellow fever mosquito sucking blood on skin.

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Invasive Alien Species Pose A Major Global Threat To Wildlife And HumansMacro close up of a yellow fever mosquito sucking blood on skin.
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Invasive Alien Species Pose A Major Global Threat To Wildlife And Humans

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Predators Are Crucial For Healthy Ecosystems, And Not Just As Hunterspredators ecosystem services

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Predators Are Crucial For Healthy Ecosystems, And Not Just As Hunterspredators ecosystem services
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Predators Are Crucial For Healthy Ecosystems, And Not Just As Hunters

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Every 36 Million Years, The Planet’s Shifting Plates Trigger A Massive Changemarine biodiversity

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Every 36 Million Years, The Planet’s Shifting Plates Trigger A Massive Changemarine biodiversity
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Every 36 Million Years, The Planet’s Shifting Plates Trigger A Massive Change

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Earth Boundaries Breaching Are Putting The Future Of Humanity At Risktree growth on globe glass in nature. concept eco earth day

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Earth Boundaries Breaching Are Putting The Future Of Humanity At Risktree growth on globe glass in nature. concept eco earth day
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Earth Boundaries Breaching Are Putting The Future Of Humanity At Risk

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Spanish Lagoon Is Granted Personhood Status And Can Now Sue PollutersMar Menor lagoon now has personhood status

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Spanish Lagoon Is Granted Personhood Status And Can Now Sue PollutersMar Menor lagoon now has personhood status
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Spanish Lagoon Is Granted Personhood Status And Can Now Sue Polluters

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