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Donald Trump picks an outspoken critic of Obama climate policies to head the environment body.
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A dramatic drop in the giraffe population over the past 30 years leaves them vulnerable to extinction.
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Poultry keepers have been told to keep their birds inside to protect them from avian flu in Europe.
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The Cassini spacecraft has sent back the first views from its new orbit around Saturn.
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Research has cast doubt on a UN-backed project to reduce pollution-induced illness in the world's poorest children by providing 100 million homes with a smoke-free stove.
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Insurance experts warn of a $100bn global "protection gap" due to increased climate change risks.
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Google reveals it is on track to offset 100% of data centre and office electricity use with renewable energy.
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Donald Trump's plan to erect a huge sea wall at his Irish golf course has been withdrawn in the light of stiff opposition.
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport signs an agreement with Houston Spaceport as it continues its bid to become the UK's first launch site.
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A project is underway to record the underwater behaviour of Britain's grey seals.
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Fossils of possibly the earliest backboned four-legged animals to walk have been found in Scotland.
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Robot aircraft are to be tested in UK airspace to help refine systems that control autonomous planes.
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The UK has bought the capsule which sent Tim Peake into space and returned him to Earth.
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Flooding across parts of the UK last winter was the most extreme on record, experts say.
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A huge alligator snapping turtle got stuck in a blocked drain pipe in Houston, Texas.
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Hunter Mitchell raised thousands of dollars to save Osita the rhino.
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European research ministers meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, emphatically reaffirm their commitment to putting a robot rover on Mars in 2021.
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The leaders of four major global cities say they will stop the use of all diesel powered cars and trucks by the middle of the next decade.
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Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, is evacuated from the South Pole after falling ill.
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Europe's research ministers negotiate over funding for the space station and a rover that would land on Mars to search for life.
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The Russian space agency confirms the loss of an unmanned cargo ship heading for the International Space Station.
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Global food policy needs to shift way from focusing on feeding people enough calories to nourishing people, say leading food experts.
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Analysis of black organic fragments found in the Sutton Hoo boat burial reveals they are bitumen from Syria.
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Proposals by the Trump administration to roll back US environmental regulations are likely to foment opposition, say analysts.
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Europe’s research ministers are meeting to decide whether to try to land a robot rover on Mars.
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A proposed private space mission is planning to visit Apollo 17's landing site on the Moon.
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The President of the UK's Royal Society warns that onerous restrictions on immigration of scientists would spell "disaster" for the UK economy
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A warming world will release vast amounts of soil carbon into the atmosphere, which in turn risks triggering dangerous climate change, scientists warn.
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New proposals from the European Commission see binding targets for energy efficiency as key method of curbing carbon.
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Australian researchers say platypus venom could pave the way for new type 2 diabetes treatments.
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The Cassini spacecraft is beginning the end phases of its mission to Saturn that will eventually see it disposed of in the giant planet's atmosphere.
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The giant manta ray could be a "predator of the deep" preying on other fish, say scientists.
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Data shows the volume of Arctic sea-ice is heading for a record-equalling low for the month of November.
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The new satellite that Europe and Russia put in orbit at Mars on 19 October has sent back its first images of the planet.
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Scientists have made a rare find: a new species of beetle from Antarctica.
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Scientists might have found the root cause of vision problems that affect some astronauts.
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Japan estimates the cost of dealing with the Fukushima nuclear disaster has doubled, reports say.
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This year saw the worst-ever destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef, a new study finds.
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England spends nearly four times more on activities that may cause flooding than it invests to combat flooding, a think tank says.
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Scientists say they have discovered 30 new species of animal in subterranean caves, following a two-year search.
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Cut off from the outside world, quake-hit Kaikoura's businesses face uncertainty but vow to hold on.
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European research ministers will be asked for just over €400m (£345m) to put a rover on Mars in 2021 when they meet next week in Switzerland.
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