About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest bacteria cannot survive. However, there are places where life thrives, from ...

In the far northeast of Ethiopia lies a landscape that seems designed to test the limits of human endurance. The Danakil Depression is a vast, sunbaked basin where the ground sinks well below sea ...

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The following is an extract from Our Human Story, a newsletter about human evolution. Sign up to receive it for free in your inbox every month. Earth has plenty of places that are difficult to live in ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions takes a deep dive into the unknown and untrodden … This week’s new question: Why put solar panels on green space when we could ...