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| Updated | 2025-07-02 18:45 |
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December was the wettest and warmest month on record - but the Met Office says this sort of extreme weather 'won’t become the new normal for decades'.
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December 2015 was a double record-breaking month according to figures from the Met Office.
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First real test for Delhi car rationing plan
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Four chemical elements have been formally added to the periodic table, completing the scheme's seventh row.
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The threat posed by the development of rice and palm oil plantations to mangroves in South-East Asia has been underestimated, a study suggests.
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The government is to create a marine reserve almost as big as the UK in the Atlantic waters of Ascension Island.
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A goat and tiger live in the same enclosure at a Russian safari park but how long can it last?
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The pull of gravity on a distant star can now be measured more accurately, shedding light on other worlds, say astronomers.
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The number of pups born at England's largest seal colony drops for the first time after nine years of rapid growth.
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US researchers design a "molten glass sewing machine" by combining 3D printing of glass with a mathematical model of the looping liquid threads.
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British astronaut Tim Peake delivers a New Year message from the International Space Station.
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Long-standing weather records have been smashed by a stormy, yet warm December, the Met Office's early figures suggest.
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Africa's rhino population could face extinction within 10 years, animal welfare experts warn.
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Nasa warns that the effects of the current El Nino weather phenomenon could be as bad as that of 1998, the strongest on record.
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Clive Coleman investigates the statutes that have their origins in the Cold War space race.
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Ten of millions of people will face hunger, water shortages and disease in 2016 as the impacts of a powerful El Nino linger into 2016.
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The possibilities exciting our science team in the coming year
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Files released by the National Archives shed light on how prime ministers viewed an official souvenir of moon dust that was given to the country by the US.
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A 2m-tall flower, known for its pungent odour which has been likened to rotting flesh, blooms in South Australia's Mount Lofty Botanic Garden.
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Scientists have sequenced the first ancient human genomes from Ireland - throwing light on the genesis of Celtic populations.
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British astronaut Tim Peake tweets a picture of northern England, taken from the International Space Station, and expresses concern for all those caught up in flooding.
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A British couple have paid £60,000 for two puppies cloned from their dead boxer.
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Conservationists at Chester Zoo have brought one of the world's most endangered birds - the Javan green magpie - into captivity.
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More of our best Science and Environment articles from 2015
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A collection of the best science and environment reads this year
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Rebecca Morelle looks back on the year in science – from a British astronaut blasting off into space, to efforts to halt global warming here on Earth.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake tweets a light-hearted apology after calling a wrong number from the International Space Station and asking "is this planet Earth?".
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Chemists are developing new sensors to sniff out explosives before deadly attacks can occur.
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Populations of Spanish ibex are being pushed to the brink by illegal hunting and disease. Now scientists are using drones in an effort to conserve the threatened species of mountain goat.
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Inmarsat, the British satellite telecommunications company, has awarded the contract to build its next-generation constellation to Airbus.
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Vultures have developed the ability to tap into turbulent air as a way of gaining altitude according to a new study.
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Researchers are encouraging people to buy 'underwater Christmas trees' to help fund the restoration of seaweed that suddenly disappeared in the 1980s.
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Archaeologist Tom Dawson, explains how the public can help to log sites at risk of coastal erosion.
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BBC News catches up with engineers at the University of Cambridge who have developed a prototype game, using remote-controlled airships.
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US defence officials confirm a streaking fireball over the skies of Nevada and California was Russian space debris.
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BBC Weather's Nick Miller looks at how the effects of El Nino are being felt around the world.
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Ecologists observe wild New Caledonian crows making and using hook-shaped tools, thanks to tiny tail-mounted cameras.
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New Caledonian crows have been caught in the act of making and using hook-shaped tools, thanks to tiny tail-mounted cameras.
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A Russian cargo vehicle carrying food and supplies has docked with the International Space Station - just in time for Christmas.
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Dogs can copy each other's expressions in a split-second just like humans, showing the ability to "read emotions", according to Italian researchers.
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The US space agency, Nasa, suspends the March launch of its next mission to Mars because of fault in a key research instrument.
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Conservationists are unveiling their 12 trees of Christmas, in a bid to highlight the plight facing some of the world's threatened conifers.
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The private space technology company SpaceX successfully lands a rocket back on land after a mission into space.
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US company SpaceX lands an unmanned rocket upright after putting satellites into orbit - the first time such a feat has been accomplished.
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A new study says that wild bees in the US are declining in many areas because of increases in the amount of corn being grown for biofuel.
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