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Paris Agreement: Trump confirms US will leave climate accord

Thu, 2019-10-24 18:50
Donald Trump says Paris deal would "punish the American people" as he hails US fossil fuel boom.
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Northern Ireland's seas a 'mixed picture'

Thu, 2019-10-24 15:28
Most seabird populations, including kittiwakes, puffins and herring gulls, remain at risk.
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From the Olympics to a climate change activist

Thu, 2019-10-24 09:13
Rok Rozman competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Now he has kayaked across six countries to help defend rivers against dams.
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Scientist gets £2m decades after he invented diabetes test

Thu, 2019-10-24 05:31
Prof Ian Shanks used his daughter's toy microscope to build a prototype for the device in the 1980s.
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Ellie Goulding on climate change: 'The backlash grows ever uglier'

Thu, 2019-10-24 05:30
Singer Ellie Goulding spoke at the One Young World summit encouraging young people to stay positive.
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The battle to break plastic's bonds

Thu, 2019-10-24 00:38
US chemists have turned plastic into motor oil, but the scientific battle to break down the tide of plastic waste continues.
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Google claims 'quantum supremacy' for computer

Wed, 2019-10-23 23:26
The company claims a quantum computer has surpassed conventional devices for the first time.
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Lighthouse moved 70m on rails to save it from falling into sea

Wed, 2019-10-23 05:39
Coastal erosion threatened to topple Denmark's Rubjerg Knude lighthouse - but now it's being moved.
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Climate: 100% organic farming would boost emissions

Wed, 2019-10-23 02:38
Going fully organic in England and Wales would require more imports of food and increase carbon output.
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'Molar Berg': Getting a measure of Antarctica's big new iceberg

Wed, 2019-10-23 01:31
Scientists use satellites to run the rule over the White Continent's latest mega-berg.
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Bezos floats 'national team' to build Moon lander

Wed, 2019-10-23 00:21
Four aerospace firms will team up in a bid to build a lunar landing system.
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How liquid air could help keep the lights on

Tue, 2019-10-22 23:15
The UK will build the first ever liquid air energy storage plant, based on an idea from a backyard inventor.
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How space affects women and men differently

Tue, 2019-10-22 09:48
BBC Radio 5 Live speaks to a space gynaecologist about the impact of space travel on female astronauts.
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Neanderthal 'glue' points to complex thinking

Tue, 2019-10-22 06:44
A Neanderthal tool from the Netherlands bears traces of ancient "glue".
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Female astronauts answer questions from orbit after spacewalk

Tue, 2019-10-22 05:47
US astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch answer questions about their all-female space walk.
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Climate change: Peatlands 'turning into carbon sources'

Tue, 2019-10-22 03:33
Scientists call for urgent action to prevent peatlands drying out and releasing vast stores of carbon.
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Prime editing: DNA tool could correct 89% of genetic defects

Tue, 2019-10-22 01:00
New technology - called prime editing - is like a "genetic word processor" able to re-write DNA.
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Dementia in football: Ex-players three and a half times more likely to die of condition

Tue, 2019-10-22 00:55
Former professional footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia than people of the same age range in the general population, according to new research.
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Are electric cars as 'green' as you think?

Mon, 2019-10-21 19:36
The lithium powering electric vehicles is found deep beneath the salt flats of Argentina
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Black hole scientist Dr Katie Bouman on trolling and teamwork

Mon, 2019-10-21 09:00
Dr Katie Bouman's photo of the moment she saw her first black hole image went viral - but it wasn't all good.
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