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Kurtis Baute: Scientist leaves airtight dome after 15 hours
Kurtis Baute spent 15 hours in an airtight dome to raise awareness about climate change.
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Reality Check
Caroline Lucas MP says that onshore wind energy is the cheapest. What are the figures behind her claim?
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Clever crows reveal 'window into the mind'
The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.
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Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament
Plastic items such as cutlery and straws would be banned in the EU under plans approved by MEPs.
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Tools discarded 6,000 years ago found near Muir of Ord
The harpoon and axes were made from red deer antler by hunter-gatherers in Highlands in the Mesolithic period.
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Young couples 'trapped in car dependency'
Planners are allowing edge-of-town housing estates where car travel is only option, researchers say.
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Two unborn babies' spines repaired in womb in UK surgery first
A team of 30 surgeons in London operated on the babies weeks before they were born.
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Illegally smuggled chimp safely rehomed in Dorset
Naree was illegally smuggled to Thailand and forced to perform in a circus.
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Concrete plans
Reducing our use of sand and cement cuts down on CO2 emissions and lessens the impact on the environment.
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Nasa 'fixes' Hubble malfunction
Nasa believes it has fixed a malfunction with the Hubble telescope which threatened to limit the orbiting observatory's performance.
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Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg
Nasa has released a striking photo of a rectangular iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
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Black Sea ship: 'World's oldest intact wreck' found
A Greek merchant ship dating back more than 2,400 years is found almost perfectly preserved.
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Anti-plastic focus 'dangerous distraction' from climate change
Riverford vegetable box boss says more focus should be on cutting carbon, not demonising plastic.
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'Super-sized' mice threaten seabird colonies with extinction
Overgrown mice are killing millions of chicks on the remote Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
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Legendary team's 1921 Everest album
Newly digitised pictures shine light on the first British reconnaissance trip to Everest, in 1921.
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'Headless chicken sea monster' filmed swimming off East Antarctica
A deep-sea swimming sea cucumber has been filmed in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica for the first time.
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Brazil museum fire: Prized 'Luzia' fossil skull recovered
It was feared that Luzia, a 12,000-year-old fossil, had been totally lost in the Brazil fire.
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Poralia rufescens jellyfish spotted off coast of California
The Poralia rufescens is swimming off the coast of southern California in the Pacific Ocean.
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'Fake moon'
The sci-fi plan would use giant mirrors in space to light city streets, but scientists are sceptical.
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Plastic recycling firms accused of abusing market
The Environment Agency is probing claims exporters are abusing the recycled plastics market.
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