Browsing: Earths

August 19, 20254 min readThese Tiny Disks Will Sail on Sunlight into Earth’s Mysterious ‘Ignorosphere’With no fuel or engines, tiny explorers will surf sun-warmed air alone…

We’ve Dammed So Much Water, Earth’s Poles Have ShiftedWhen large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth…

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on…

The US government is to become the biggest shareholder in the country’s only operational rare earths mine.It is also going to take a series of other…

Magma Pulses Are Tearing Africa ApartChemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones meet…

See Earth’s Forests as Never Before in Biomass Satellite’s First ImagesNew images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Chinese trade myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.China’s export controls are spilling over into products…

It’s an irony that the minerals needed to save the planet may help destroy it. Rare earth elements, the mineral backbones of wind turbines and electric vehicles,…

Mysterious Link between Earth’s Magnetism and Oxygen Baffles ScientistsThe strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and…