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What is the farthest point on Earth from an ocean? Where can we find the highest human settlement or the lowest commercial ...

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Very few places on Earth are completely lifeless. No matter how extreme the conditions, there is almost always something that has evolved to exploit them. Even though ice rips apart cell membranes ...

The Solar System is a vast and varied landscape offering an array of planetary and moonscape phenomena unlike anything found ...

Extreme weather disrupts nature's timing, affecting plants, insects, and ecosystems by altering phenological patterns.

Hang son Doong, Vietnam, one of the largest caves on Earth. It is a portal to an extreme world, two hundred metres deep underground. Plants can only survive in this spot because light streams ...

If you think Earth has some bad weather ... So if the lack of oxygen and extreme temperatures don't kill you, the radiation certainly will. This isn't as much of a problem on Venus, however.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore may face certain effects on their health upon returning to Earth after nine ...

Because Earth is tilted far enough on its axis that ... And that's where a more extreme tilt starts to cause problems. Right now, during the summer in the Northern Hemisphere, places far north ...

Challenger Deep, the Earth's deepest point, lies in the Mariana Trench. Discover its extreme conditions, exploration history, ...

Our local lenders are all treasure troves of discovery but we’ve decided to explore some of the world’s most extreme places to borrow a book. Think reading rooms which double as Hollywood ...