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The Great Forgetting

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 1, 2023January 1, 2023

“Earth is losing its memory.”

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The Mad Scramble to Claim the World’s Most Coveted Meteorite

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 27, 2018October 19, 2022

Meteorite hunters Mike Farmer and Robert Ward travel to Carancas, a tiny village at 12,000 feet in Peru’s remote altiplano, to examine a crater in the hope to claim precious rock from space.

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The Quest for the Collision Zone: An Arctic Expedition

by Dana Snitzky March 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Geologists on a mission to vindicate their theory of a lost mountain range discover something even more significant buried beneath the ice. An excerpt from A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice.

Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Nonfiction, Science & Nature

The Quest for the Collision Zone: An Arctic Expedition

by Longreads March 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Geologists on a mission to vindicate their theory of a lost mountain range discover something even more significant buried beneath the ice.

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