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Rare flowers destroyed in Australia after paperwork error
The French collection was incinerated by Australian biosecurity officers due to missing paperwork.
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Worries over US pullout to dominate UN climate talks
As negotiators meet in Bonn, the talk is of the US president and his intentions for the Paris accord.
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Keep out
The minefields laid in the Falkland Islands 35 years ago have been a blessing for penguins, which are not big enough to trigger explosions. But now the time has come for their home to be demined.
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The world's largest artificial sun
Scientists in Germany have invented an indoor sun.
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India launches 'invaluable' South Asia satellite
The satellite, funded by India, will help South Asian nations boost their communication services.
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Air quality: Diesel scrappage scheme being considered
The scheme is part of the government's draft clean air plan, which critics dismissed as "toothless".
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UK clean air strategy: Government to publish draft proposals
After a protracted legal battle, ministers are forced to reveal anti-pollution proposals.
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Orangutan rescued after two years in box in Indonesia
Watch the moment a young ape is freed after two years locked away in a wooden cage in Indonesia.
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Jurassic animal found on Skye 'fed milk to young'
A fossil found on Skye of the early mammal suggests it had a set of milk teeth, say palaeontologists.
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Nasa runs competition to help make old Fortran code faster
Two coders will share a $55,000 prize for what a Nasa official calls the "ultimate 'geek' dream assignment.
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Birdwatching from space
Scientists are counting albatrosses on remote islands from satellite images.
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Albatrosses counted from space
Super-sharp images from a US satellite are keeping track of remote bird-breeding sites.
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Big bang theory
Pioneering work that extracts information from audio of gunshots could help solve criminal cases.
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Rare Russian tiger returns to the wild
Amur tigers were nearly driven to extinction, but conservation work in Russia is helping them bouncing back slowly.
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Washed up whale 'most contaminated' on record
Lulu the killer whale had 20 times the expected level of banned chemicals known as PCBs in her system.
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Busy shipping lanes could cause 'seal hearing loss'
Researchers say noise could affect how whales, dolphins and seals find food and communicate.
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Bumblebees: Pesticide 'reduces queen egg development'
Using the insecticide thiamethoxam in spring could reduce numbers later in the year, a study finds.
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'Shocking' levels of PCB chemicals in UK killer whale Lulu
One of the UK's last killer whales, which was found dead last year, had some of the highest levels of a toxic pollutant ever recorded.
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Antarctic iceberg crack develops fork
The fissure that will lead to the breakaway of one of the largest bergs ever seen has a new branch.
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Ministers will not appeal pollution ruling
The UK Government has decided not to appeal against the High Court's rejection of a bid to delay publication of its draft plan to tackle illegal levels of air pollution.
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