biodiversity, earth formation, evolution

New Unified Theory Shows How Past Landscapes Drove the Evolution of Earth’s Rich Diversity of Life

Earth’s surface is the living skin of our planet — it connects the physical, chemical, and biological systems and their diversity. Over geological time, this surface evolves. Rivers fragment the landscape into an environmentally diverse range of habitats. These rivers also transfer sediments from the mountains to the continental plains and ultimately the oceans. The ...

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A sheltered bay.

Earth’s Formation Could Be Explained by Its Magnetic Field

Several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed planet with a glancing blow and then escapes through to one where the collision is so energetic that both the impactor and the planet are vaporized. Now, ...

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A very lage object hitting Earth.