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Early Earth

Classic Moon-formation simulations typically produced a ring of debris that assembled over months or years after a Mars-sized world struck early Earth. But simulations published in September 2026 that included temperature-dependent rock strength found that, under certain conditions, a coherent Moon-sized satellite could emerge in roughly five hours.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 13, 2026

Political Economy

The figure quoted as $7.4 trillion in annual fossil fuel subsidies is mostly not money changing hands. About $6.7 trillion of it is damage the IMF says goes uncharged, three-quarters of that from air pollution and climate, on a definition other agencies reject.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 12, 2026

Climate Science

Tom Rivett-Carnac describes stubborn optimism as grit in the face of an unavoidable challenge, not cheerfulness, and the research supports the distinction: Maria Ojala found hope based on denial predicted less pro-environmental behaviour among Swedish teenagers, while constructive hope predicted more

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026

Terra Daily

Every year Australia slides seven centimeters toward the north-northeast, almost twice the pace of a growing fingernail and quicker than any other continent. Southeast Asia is already in the way, and some models fold the plate into a new supercontinent inside 300 million years.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026

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Unsold and secondhand clothing piles up in dumps in Chile's Atacama desert, and a small factory nearby now shreds it and presses it into insulation panels. The boards going up inside the walls of new houses started out as garments nobody ever bought.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026

Climate Science

Seismologists already knew big earthquakes send waves down to Earth's core and back, but Japan's 2011 quake was the first time those returning waves were shown to actually slip tectonic plates near the surface — a previously unrecognised source of seismic hazard.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Sep 9, 2026

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