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Supreme Court hears case that may derail Biden's climate plan
The justices heard an appeal from 19 mostly Republican-led states, led by coal state West Virginia.
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Climate change: UN report to show true scale of impacts
A landmark study on how global warming is altering our planet is set to be released later.
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Chernobyl: Radiation spike at nuclear plant seized by Russian forces
But a disaster at the defunct nuclear power plant there is "extremely unlikely", experts say.
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Malaria: Aberystwyth University drone system used in Zanzibar
The drones are being used to find pools of water that mosquitos use to breed.
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Government climate advisers say cut fossil fuels to lower energy bills
The government's climate change advisers say new oil and gas in the North Sea would not lower bills.
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Global warming and land use change to drive more extreme wildfires
The number of exceptional wildfires will increase by 50% by the end of the century, the UN warns.
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Climate change: Can the UK afford its net zero policies?
The cost of living crisis has led backbench Conservative MPs to call for a rethink of the government's plans.
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Fossil of largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye
A student on a field trip finds the world's largest complete fossil of a 170-million-year-old pterosaur.
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Deforestation threat to Amazon indigenous areas if protected status changed - report
It is illegal to mine these areas of the rainforest but the government wants to change the law.
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Hedgehog population plummets in UK countryside, research suggests
The population of hedgehogs in rural Britain has continued a "steep decline", say conservationists.
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IPCC: Climate change report to sound warning on impacts
The study will focus heavily on how warming hurts regions as well as cities and coastal communities.
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Neom: What's the green truth behind a planned eco-city in the Saudi desert?
Saudi Arabia - one of the world's biggest oil producers - says it's pivoting to green energy. But will reality live up to the rhetoric?
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden's 'Newton's apple tree' falls in storm
The tree is one of many cloned from the one that led Isaac Newton to discover the laws of gravity.
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Ministers set to drop UK ban on foie gras and fur imports
The proposed measure is likely to be dropped from an animal welfare bill, after ministers raised concerns.
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Climate change: Covid shutdown linked to record rainfall in China
An abrupt drop in emissions due to the pandemic played a key role in record rainfall in China in 2020.
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Natural History Museum confirms stick insect is male and female
Charlie the pet stick insect is revealed to be both male and female after moulting.
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How 8 million trees were brought down in one winter
Hundreds of thousands more are now threatened by Storms Dudley and Eunice bearing down on Britain.
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Pharmaceuticals in rivers threaten world health - study
Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected, research finds.
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Rocket part on crash course with Moon 'not from Elon Musk's SpaceX'
Astronomers no longer believe a rocket stage that's due to hit the Moon was from Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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Amazon deforestation: Record high destruction of trees in January
An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed.
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