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A selection of the winners in this year's Bird Photographer of the Year competition.
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Floods, storms and extreme events increase five-fold but the number of people dying in them fell.
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Experts say 17,500 tree species are at risk around the world, including magnolias, oaks and maples.
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Both beauty and beast. A Sabethes mosquito is visually stunning but it's also a carrier of disease.
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A firm wins a court order amid claims protesters are conducting a "vicious" intimidation campaign.
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Speaking ahead of Glasgow's COP26, the activist says no country in the "global north" is doing enough.
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The highly polluting fuel has contaminated the atmosphere, water and crops for nearly a century.
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The former boss of blood testing company Theranos is accused of fraud and could face years in jail.
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Hurricane Ida made landfall on the US state of Louisiana, on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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More efficient planes and sustainable fuels could lower air travel's impact, but not for a while.
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How bird feeding could disrupt an ecological balance just beyond our windowsills and gardens.
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The office that oversees US spy agencies could not establish how the coronavirus pandemic began.
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They say a tiny island off Greenland's coast was discovered by luck during a recent expedition.
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BBC Reality Check looks at whether it's possible to buy your way out of creating harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
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The three-metre whale was found in Egypt and has been named after Anubis, the ancient god of death.
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Scientists say light pollution is a factor driving "worrying" declines in local insect populations.
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It is believed to be the first time this behaviour of giant tortoises has been documented.
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"The window of opportunity" for crucial studies into how the Covid-19 pandemic started is closing, scientists say.
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Temperatures in Europe in 2020 broke the previous high mark by a worrying margin say scientists.
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Plans to decarbonise homes are too complicated and confusing, say consumer and industry groups.
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The country is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine", the UN says.
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The UK government is seeking people's views on whether beavers should return to England's rivers.
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UN experts say rapid innovative solutions are needed to end our dependency on fossil fuels. Could this new project provide an answer?
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The high-speed evacuated-tube transportation company reveals its plans for passenger pods
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Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Copley Medal.
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How people around the world are recycling plastic waste themselves and turning it into cool stuff.
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Heavy rainfall that led to deadly floods in Germany and Belgium was influenced by human induced warming.
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UN negotiators have resumed work on a plan to protect at least 30% of the world's land and oceans.
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A new study asks if lifestyle changes including an end to flying will be necessary to reach net zero?
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Babbling in baby bats bears a striking resemblance to human infants learning to talk, researchers find.
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Rattlesnakes have evolved a clever method of convincing humans that danger is closer than you think.
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Tracking devices show movements of curlew after their release into the wild.
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A global treaty banning ozone-depleting chemicals in 1987 may have averted a climate catastrophe today.
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A US science institute is on the verge of achieving a longstanding goal in nuclear fusion research.
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Researchers capture some of the most detailed images ever seen of galaxies in deep space.
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Kick-starting a hydrogen industry could attract billions in investment, the UK government says.
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Justin Sullivan has been following California's second-largest reservoir's falling water levels.
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Mr Bezos's Blue Origin says it was unfairly treated after being excluded from lunar landing contract.
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After a mammoth journey across the country the pack of pachyderms are finally heading home.
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Fifty sustainable sewage treatment plants have been built that work in similar way to a cow's stomach.
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A new study aims to discover more about how the rare creatures have bred in the New Forest.
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The clothes we wear can have a huge impact on the climate, even more so than the aviation industry.
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US scientists say July's land and ocean temperature was 0.93C (1.68F) above the 20th Century average.
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A third of English councils support policies that could increase emissions, BBC research suggests.
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Scientists analyse the chemistry in a woolly mammoth tusk to work out how far it travelled.
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The conservation group WWF says the UK government must keep its promises on climate change.
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Human activity is causing unprecedented changes in our climate - that's the main message in the latest report from the IPCC. In this month's Climate Check, Ben Rich explains why a warmer world will also be a wetter one.
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A series of major wildfires across the world has hit the headlines - how do they compare to previous years?
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Scientists say that rapid cuts in methane could be a key tactic in the battle against climate change.
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Meteorologists have named the sixth Atlantic storm of 2021, hinting at an above-average season.
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