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US researchers say it has become "virtually impossible" to plant genetically modified trees in any part of the world.
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A new study confirms humans' status as a unique super predator, and points to ways our impacts on other species could be lessened.
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July was the hottest month on Earth since records began in 1880, according to US scientists.
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British troops are on their way to Gabon on the west coast of Africa to tackle an increase in ivory poaching.
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The US space agency has issued another of the "selfie" portraits acquired by its Curiosity rover on Mars, but this one is taken from a much lower angle.
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Chemists discover a way to take carbon dioxide from the air and make carbon nanofibres, a valuable manufacturing material.
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Ten years of public sightings show that large marine mammals are regularly found in the River Thames.
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A blue whale emerges from the ocean, just as a BBC presenter is explaining how hard they are to find.
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A new probe sticks to blood clots so they "light up" in a PET scan, and could eventually save time during treatment of stroke and related conditions.
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Japan has successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft bound for the International Space Station.
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Software that helps Prof Stephen Hawking to speak via a computer has been published online by Intel, the company that created it.
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Confusion over the types of coal being burned in China's power stations means its carbon emissions have been overestimated, say researchers.
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New lab results show how collisions between comets and planets can make the molecules that are the essential building blocks of life.
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Evidence from a variety of sources suggests that the first people to resettle Britain after the Ice Age were more sophisticated than we could have imagined.
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Chemists isolate the pleasantly perfumed active chemicals in sweetgrass - a plant used by Native Americans to fend off mosquitoes.
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Is it worth treating everyone who could get infected?
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Researchers at Glasgow University develop a new way to protect farmed salmon from sea lice.
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The World Health Organization is calling for "intensified action" to protect health workers treating people in crisis and conflict zones.
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The Oil and Gas Authority has announced 27 more locations in England where licences to frack for shale oil and gas will be offered.
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Antibiotics really are wonder drugs - but we misuse them at our peril
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Islamic environmental and religious leaders have called on rich and oil producing nations to rapidly embrace renewable energy.
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Scientists, universities and farming leaders write to Scotland's rural affairs secretary raising concerns about a ban on growing GM crops.
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Scientists in the US have come up with a book which can be used to filter contaminated drinking water.
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Scientists say that grime on urban surfaces does not absorb and lock away nitrogen gases - it re-releases them when hit by sunlight.
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Botanists in the US say an ancient plant that grew underwater in what is modern day Europe may have been the world's first known flowering plant.
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Oil and gas giant Shell has been granted the final permit it needs to begin drilling below the ocean floor for oil in the Arctic.
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A mass grave containing at least 26 skeletons is further evidence of the brutal conflict that appears to have beset central Europe 7,000 years ago.
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London-based Inmarsat sets a launch date for the third of its next-generation spacecraft, allowing it to complete its £1bn Global Xpress network - the UK's biggest commercial space venture.
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Field trials show a so-called "drinkable book" can kill bacteria in drinking water, thanks to metal nanoparticles embedded in its pages.
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Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly captures timelapse footage of Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, from the International Space Station.
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Forty years since weather symbols were introduced to BBC forecasts, BBC Weather's John Hammond looks back at the evolution of how the corporation has presented the weather.
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A planet 100 light-years away resembles a young version of Jupiter, astronomers say.
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Climate change is increasing the risk of severe 'food shocks' where crops fail and prices of staples rise rapidly.
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Scotland's salmon farming industry has begun farming a new type of fish, specifically to keep salmon clean.
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Asda is to increase the price it pays its milk supplier to "a level that will assist farmers during the current crisis", the supermarket says.
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A UK museum says it may hold Zimbabwean human remains, but cannot confirm if they are the "skulls of beheaded heroes" referred to by President Mugabe.
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Comet 67P has passed the closest point to the Sun in its 6.5-year orbit, with the Rosetta spacecraft still in orbit around it.
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Stargazers captured the dazzling display of the annual Perseid meteor shower as it reached its peak on Wednesday night. BBC News viewers sent in their photos.
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The force of the explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin were so vast they "alarmed" China's National Earthquake Network.
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The annual Perseid meteor shower reached its peak during the night, although weather spoilt viewing in some parts of the UK.
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Environmental groups are angry at moves to give ministers the power to decide whether or not to approve applications for fracking if local authorities take too long.
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Shale gas planning applications are to be fast-tracked under new government measures to crack down on councils that delay on making a decision.
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A mass burial site that may contain 30 victims of the Great Plague is found underneath Liverpool Street station as part of Crossrail works.
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One World Elephant day, the BBC is told how poaching could see the end of elephants in the wild by 2030.
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A look at some of your photos of the Perseid meteor shower in 60 seconds.
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The BBC's Pallab Ghosh explains why the Perseid meteor shower happens every year.
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Arctic oil drilling may harm Shell's reputation and cost it dear, says the former BP boss Lord Browne, but Shell says the risks are manageable.
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The figurehead from a 15th century ship, the Gribshunden, has been raised from the Baltic Sea near Ronneby, Sweden, more than 500 years after it sank.
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