Earth's magnetic field strength and atmospheric oxygen levels have oscillated in tandem for around 540 million years, ...

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Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

Airliners go just about everywhere in the world, but despite advances in air travel, there's still one place that a ...