Not much can survive the staggering pressures and temperatures hundreds of kilometers beneath the Earth’s crust, but diamonds are up to the task.

Not much can survive the staggering pressures and temperatures hundreds of kilometers beneath the Earth’s crust, but diamonds are up to the task.
Expedition member Chris Blakeley in the entrance to the world’s northernmost known cave, found on the Wulff Land…
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