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A team of UK scientists have claimed the record for decoding the world's longest DNA sequence.
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WWF blames "exploding consumption" for average losses of 60% in vertebrate populations since 1970.
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The British-led mission to test techniques to clear up space junk initiates its second experiment.
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America's audacious mission to "touch the Sun" has now got nearer to our star than any previous human-made object.
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Brazil's highly biodiverse Cerrado is being destroyed for soybean production, conservationists say.
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Experts worry this will increase demand for the animals and jeopardise efforts to protect them.
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The animals have been getting fishing nets stuck to them or rings trapped on their necks.
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The delights of chocolate were first discovered in the Amazon rainforest about 5,000 years ago.
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A Powys captive breeding project aims to give water voles a fighting chance of a revival.
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A new study shows that rising temperatures drive the disappearance of mountain-top bird species in Peru.
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Urban areas need to cherish wetlands as a natural defence against flooding, experts warn.
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Trains that emit pure water could be in the UK by the "early 2020s", according to the government.
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The chancellor says councils in England will get an extra £420m in his Budget to fix potholes.
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The transport secretary says the government will back major development on the Oxford-Cambridge arc.
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"Water cooler moment" as greener cooling idea is scaled up to help chill homes and buildings.
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Caroline Lucas MP says that onshore wind energy is the cheapest. What are the figures behind her claim?
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Work begins to exhume thousands of skeletons to make way for HS2 construction.
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Some 45,000 skeletons are being removed to make way for a new station terminus.
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Climate advisors say coastal communities must "get real" about the possibility of 1m sea level rise.
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When the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth, it made billions of tonnes of rock move like a fluid.
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Many more children woke up to a voice-based alarm than a traditional one, a study found.
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A new US study says that several low-cost technologies can be deployed right now to limit global warming.
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Kurtis Baute spent 15 hours in an airtight dome to raise awareness about climate change.
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The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.
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Plastic items such as cutlery and straws would be banned in the EU under plans approved by MEPs.
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The harpoon and axes were made from red deer antler by hunter-gatherers in Highlands in the Mesolithic period.
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Planners are allowing edge-of-town housing estates where car travel is only option, researchers say.
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Naree was illegally smuggled to Thailand and forced to perform in a circus.
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Reducing our use of sand and cement cuts down on CO2 emissions and lessens the impact on the environment.
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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 has released a striking photo of a rectangular iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
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A Greek merchant ship dating back more than 2,400 years is found almost perfectly preserved.
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Riverford vegetable box boss says more focus should be on cutting carbon, not demonising plastic.
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Overgrown mice are killing millions of chicks on the remote Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
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Newly digitised pictures shine light on the first British reconnaissance trip to Everest, in 1921.
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A deep-sea swimming sea cucumber has been filmed in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica for the first time.
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It was feared that Luzia, a 12,000-year-old fossil, had been totally lost in the Brazil fire.
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The Poralia rufescens is swimming off the coast of southern California in the Pacific Ocean.
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Europe and Japan celebrate the successful launch of a quest to visit the closest planet to the Sun.
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The sci-fi plan would use giant mirrors in space to light city streets, but scientists are sceptical.
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The bones, discovered on the site of an ancient river, are thought to be at least 130,000 years old.
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The Environment Agency is probing claims exporters are abusing the recycled plastics market.
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BepiColombo mission could shed light on space weather and history of our planet
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A 150-million-year-old, sharp-toothed fossil is believed to be the world's oldest piranha-like specimen.
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Twin brothers have been showing off the biggest pumpkin ever to have been grown indoors in the UK.
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Oregon zoo posted images taken during routine health checks.
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The solar-powered cooker that uses an alternative to charcoal.
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Ian Kiernan's iconic anti-litter campaign, begun in Australia in the 1980s, became a global success.
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A study of ancient dog DNA shows man's best friend has been at our side for at least 9,000 years.
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Two snub-nosed monkeys sitting on a stone is the top shot at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018.
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