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Billions of tiny plastic lentil-sized pellets can be spotted on UK shores - but how do 'nurdles' get there?

Owners of more polluting cars will have to pay extra levy from October to drive within congestion charge zone

Older, more polluting cars will have to pay a £10 charge to drive in central London from 23 Octoberthe city’s mayor, has said.

Confirming he would press ahead with the fee, known as the T-charge, Sadiq Khan said: “It’s staggering that we live in a city where the air is so toxic that many of our children are growing up with lung problems. If we don’t make drastic changes now we won’t be protecting the health of our families in the future.

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Scientists are calling for more people to donate their brains to research to help find cures for mental and psychological disorders.

Researchers in Cardiff develop a new "highly-efficient" method of extracting disease-fighting compounds.

Almost entirely submerged, Zealandia meets all the criteria to be considered a continent, say researchers.

Mexborough, South Yorkshire No longer ‘more or less solid chemicals’, the gunmetal waters of the Don are clean enough for salmon

There were wisps of snow in the liverish sky over Main Street, Mexborough. I passed a shop offering cash for clothes, 40p a kilo, across the road from a tattoo parlour, and then stopped outside its shuttered neighbour. This was, from 1938, the family home of Ted Hughes. The poet’s parents ran it as a newsagent’s.

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They say they are lacking the brains of people with disorders such as depression and PTSD.

The designers of the scheme Labor has embraced to meet climate targets admit it is designed to promote gas, not wind or solar – even with a 50% emission reduction target.

Victoria's Labor government calling for expressions of interest to build 20MW battery storage array, to improve grid stability.

Research institutions want to make it easier for scientists to collaborate and share facilities.

SimpliPhi Power CEO in talks on battery storage with Australia's "progressive" utilities and transmission companies.

Why were certain areas rolled out before others? what packages should you get? What do you do if the speeds don't live up to what you were sold? Kelly Stevens from NBNCo joins us in studio to answer all of your questions.

Australia's premier financial regulatory body has delivered a stark warning to the country's politicians, saying that climate change already poses "system-side" financial risks.

The rules of Australia's energy markets were written at a time when coal and gas were the only major options.

Queensland's 25MW Barcaldine solar farm has been bought by one of Europe’s leading solar infrastructure investment teams, Foresight Group.

EnergyAustralia signs third PPA in 3 months, this time a 13-year deal for all the electricity generated by Victoria's 60MW Gannawarra Solar Farm.

Great Winter Nurdle Hunt finds thousands of pellets used in plastic production washed up on shorelines around country

A search of hundreds of beaches across the UK has found almost three-quarters of them are littered with tiny plastic pellets.

The lentil-size pellets known as “nurdles” are used as a raw material by industry to make new plastic products.

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DAWN DISCOVERY: Simple organic molecules have been detected on the dwarf planet Ceres, adding to evidence it contains key ingredients essential for life.

Anti-establishment sentiment is surging to a record high—the question now is who will capture and channel it.

Believe Canada is immune to Trump-like conservatism? That the country could never be swept by a right-wing populist scapegoating the vulnerable, promising to bring back jobs, and beating the drum of law-and-order? Think again. The conditions for such an eruption are on stark display.

A poll released this week reveals a stunning lack of trust in government among Canadians—and a dramatic drop since Justin Trudeau came to power. No less than 80 percent think the Canadian elite are “out of touch” with ordinary people. 60 percent believe mainstream politicians won’t solve our problems. As in the rest of the world, it is no different here: anti-establishment and populist sentiment is surging like never before.

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Underwater flowering plants play multiple roles in keeping coastal ecosystems healthy.