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• Greenland ice drilling hits rock bottom
  An international team of scientists have hit Greenland bedrock after five years of drilling through 2.5 kilometres of solid ice.
  
  
• Climate 'check-up' finds world is warming
  A report on the world's climate has confirmed that 2009 was one of Australia's hottest years on record and provides more evidence of global warming.
  
  
• Ocean's food source disappearing: study
  In oceans around the world, there has been a surprisingly large and extensive decline in phytoplankton - the tiny algae that keep marine food webs afloat.
  
  
• Shark skin harbours deadly bacteria
  As if rows of serrated teeth and an uncanny ability to smell blood weren't deadly enough, sharks have a new way to harm unsuspecting swimmers: drug-resistance bacteria.
  
  
• Doubts over South American marsupial study
  A new study that suggests all living marsupials originated in South America and share a common ancestor has been disputed by an Australian palaeontologist as "simplistic".
  
  
• Soil crucial to public health: experts
  Soil should be safeguarded as a "saviour" of public health, despite being the source of potentially dangerous bugs, say US experts.
  
  
• Dinosaurs dug for mammalian prey
  Fossilised mammal burrows that appear to have been clawed out by a predator suggests dinosaurs dug into mammal dens to get furry morsels.
  
  
• Exploding moss launch system revealed
  Sphagnum moss uses the power of vortices, or rings of rolling air, to launch their spores to extraordinary heights, according to a new study.