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European settlement of the Americas killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate.
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The deep freeze gripping much of the US has been blamed on a polar vortex. Here's what that means.
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A research cruise gets under way as part of the biggest ever US-UK joint venture in Antarctica.
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SeaWorld says Kayla, aged 30, "inspired generations of guests and employees to care and learn".
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Investors are calling on KFC, McDonald's and others to cut warming gases from their dairy and meat supply chains.
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How much do you know about the iconic symbol of science pinned to every classroom wall?
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Anna Bergstrom runs a shopping mall in Sweden where everything for sale is recycled. Her goal is to make sustainable shopping fashionable.
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Thousands of lakes are set to lose their ice cover within a generation due to rising temperatures.
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The UK's Ministry of Defence approaches an Oxford start-up to help design a sovereign satellite radar system.
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Researchers have genetically modified chickens to lay eggs which contain drugs that fight cancer.
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The coming days will see an attempt to locate the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship.
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Pollution from farmers' fields that endangers fish is cut by a university-backed project.
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Thousands skip school in Berlin and some other European cities to urge action on global warming.
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Deep pits on the surface of the small, icy object Ultima Thule come into much sharper view.
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Neanderthals produced weapons that could kill from 20m away, a new study claims.
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Kalamsat-V2 weighs just 1.26kg (2.6lb) and was made by students belonging to a space education firm.
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Sightings from fishing boats suggest the mysterious angel shark is present in Welsh waters.
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The Met Office says that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere in 2019 will rise at near record pace.
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We've had vegan burgers and sausage rolls - could animal-free clothing be our next obsession?
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Evidence is increasingly forcing us to re-visit our assumptions about the Neanderthals.
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Researchers say it is the first time a large-scale explosive volcanic event has been confirmed in Scotland.
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The British Antarctic Survey puts instruments 2km under the surface of the Rutford Ice Stream.
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The Barents Sea is shifting from an Arctic climate to an Atlantic climate, and is now said to be at tipping point as its waters heat up.
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The Amazon boss puts up his New Shepard space vehicle from Texas for a series of Nasa experiments.
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New science funding initiatives are accused of pandering to political imperatives.
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Researchers involved in monitoring fracking in the UK say the limits on seismic activity are "too conservative".
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The naturalist tells Prince William people must look after the natural world, or it will be wrecked.
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Prince William interviews Sir David Attenborough at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Greenland went through an "unprecedented" period of ice loss in the last two decades.
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Automated software is now scouring social media posts looking for evidence of ape trafficking.
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The famous replica skeleton, usually displayed at London's Natural History Museum, goes on show in Glasgow.
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A warming climate shifts the distribution of the krill species eaten by whales and other predators.
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The shark's teeth resemble alien spaceships from the game, Galaga, according to US scientists.
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Some stargazers struggled to see the rare lunar eclipse which makes the moon appear to glow red.
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Investigators say He Jiankui sought "fame and fortune" with his claim to have edited baby genes.
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The first and last blood moon of the year has peaked.
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During the spectacular event, the Earth's natural satellite turns a striking shade of red.
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The Black Arrow projectile had lain at its crash landing site in the outback for more than 48 years.
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Elizabeth Rizzini explains the 'super blood wolf moon' - and forecasts the weather for UK skywatchers on Monday.
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Follow Najuma the black rhino as she is transported from Germany to a new home in Yorkshire.
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Footage emerges of divers getting up close and personal with massive great white shark.
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One of the most distinctive features in the Solar System is no more than 100 million years old.
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The shark, believed to be one known as Deep Blue, weighs 2.5 tonnes and is nearly 20ft long.
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How green is nuclear power and what are the other options?
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Of 124 coffees in the world, we only drink two, but we need to protect all of them, say scientists.
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The approximately 91m (298ft) wide frozen slab formed naturally and has been slowly spinning.
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Two months ago, a record-breaking heatwave devastated Australia's population of spectacled flying foxes.
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The world's loneliest frog, known as Romeo, finds friends (and a possible date) after water frogs found in the wild.
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Scientists find a Juliet for water frog, Romeo, once thought to be the last of his kind in the world.
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