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China is set to reveal how much it will cut carbon emissions by beyond 2020, says Premier Li Keqiang during a visit to Europe.
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Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on life in space
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The US Supreme Court blocks a key government attempt to limit pollution from the country's power plants after industry challenges the changes.
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An application to start fracking at a site in Lancashire is rejected by county councillors.
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A solar-powered plane has passed the "point of no return" in its second bid at making a record-breaking flight across the Pacific Ocean.
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A solar-powered plane passes the "point of no return" after leaving Japan for a second attempt at a record-breaking flight across the Pacific Ocean.
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An unmanned SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket breaks apart in flames after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida - its first failure in 19 launches.
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One of the world's largest and smelliest flowers has blossomed for the first time in Scotland.
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Does the future of wildlife lie in captivity?
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Seagrasses - the underwater plants that act as nursery grounds for young fish - need more protection, according to Welsh scientists.
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The good-looking gorilla that captivated women in Japan and beyond
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The president of University College London says that Prof Sir Tim Hunt will not be reinstated after his controversial comments about women.
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Scientists in India and Pakistan say higher temperatures were just one factor in the recent heatwaves and other causes such as air pressure, humidity and sea breezes played a role.
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The distinguished broadcaster and naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, has been on a visit to the White House at the personal invitation of President Obama.
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A strain of genetically modified wheat developed in the UK has failed to repel pests as intended in field trials.
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The famous lemurs of Madagascar face such severe threats to their survival that none of them may be left in the wild within 25 years.
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The OneWeb company, which aims to take affordable internet connectivity to every part of the globe, says it will need the biggest commercial rocket campaign in history to get all of its satellites in orbit.
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The famous lemurs of Madagascar face such severe threats to their survival that none of them may be left in the wild within 25 years.
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One of nature's most bizarre animals - Hallucigenia - is finally revealed in its entirety after specimens in Canada reveal its missing face.
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A hairy Antarctic crab that was dubbed "The Hoff" when it was first found in Antarctic waters gets a formal scientific description and name.
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How zoo giraffes are helping veterinary scientists to find out if very long, spindly legs are a help or a hindrance for walking.
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Is the Dutch court ruling 'a game changer'?
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In a desperate bid to save one of the world's most endangered animals, conservationists are taking the controversial step of defacing the last survivors.
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Oxford University Museum of Natural History has been shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year.
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A court in the Netherlands orders the government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by 2020, in a class action suit launched by activists.
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The EU's climate chief says the UK's scrapping of subsidies will make it harder to meet renewables targets and an official describes the move as "mind-boggling".
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Racehorses are continuing to get quicker, a study of winning times spanning 165 years of racing indicates.
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A female from the first wild beaver colony in England for hundreds of years has given birth to at least two young.
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Racehorses are continuing to get quicker, a study of winning times spanning 165 years of racing indicates.
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How could someone survive at -56C with no oxygen?
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A bid to start the UK's first fracking operation in four years near the Lancashire coast is being examined
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The Scottish government publishes "radical" proposals aimed at widening the ownership of land across the country.
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Director Christopher Nolan talks about the importance of accurate science in making his film Interstellar, after a leading scientific journal calls for it to be shown in school lessons.
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A scientific journal calls for the film Interstellar to be shown in school science lessons.
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The second of the European Union's Sentinel Earth-observing satellites launches on a mission that will allow scientists to map the performance of the world's crop harvests.
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Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred in Europe, according to an analysis of 40,000-year-old DNA.
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Canadian group Urthecast plans to put a 16-satellite constellation in orbit to image the Earth, including making small movies of what is happening at the surface of the planet.
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The Earth has entered a "new period of extinction", a study by three US universities concludes, and humans could be among the first casualties.
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More than a ton of confiscated ivory is crushed in New York's Times Square to send a message that the illegal trade will not be tolerated.
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Scientists say they have the best evidence yet that there is hot lava spewing from the surface of Venus.
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Europe's Philae comet lander has been back in touch with Earth - its first contact since Sunday.
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Hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs have been washing up on Southern California's beaches, after warm ocean currents carried them closer to the shoreline than usual.
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The Pope issued his letter on the environment on Thursday. In it he said that climate change was mostly a man-made problem.
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Scientists report that wild kangaroos tend to favour their left hands in common tasks - the first example of non-human, species-wide "handedness".
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Most illegally poached African elephant ivory can be traced back to just two areas of Africa, research shows.
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