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Hurricanes, floods and wildfires wreaked havoc, causing deaths and a huge financial impact.
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Catherine Nakalembe won this year's Africa Food Prize for pioneering work using satellite images.
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Lockdowns around the world have led to record falls in CO2 emissions. But will this lead to long lasting change?
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Lewis Hamilton isn't just the world's most successful F1 driver, he's also a key backer of a new off-road electric vehicle racing series called Extreme E.
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Record-breaking astronaut Scott Kelly talks about living in space and his desire to go back.
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Officials seek a criminal probe after photos of 540 deer and boar corpses are shared on social media.
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The successor to AlphaGo is being used to create a more efficient type of video compression.
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It might have suffered a big break-up this week but the iceberg is still carrying substantial bulk.
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Scientists have filmed octopuses in the Red Sea lashing out at fish during a group hunt.
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The US space agency releases an animation to show how its Perseverance robot will land on Mars.
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The dark green mineral has been called kernowite as the rock comes from a mine in Cornwall.
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The giant iceberg that's been drifting through the South Atlantic experiences a major break-up.
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Scientists say the cub, which died about 56,000 years ago, is "the most complete wolf mummy known".
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Jupiter and Saturn - the Solar System's largest planets - have crossed paths in the night sky.
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A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.
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Part of a giant rocket that will send humans back to the Moon has undergone a critical test.
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The US president-elect says the team will lead his "ambitious plan" to combat climate change.
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Archaeologists link the destruction of a "high status" village to the uprising in Roman Britain.
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Sir David examines how wildlife adapts to the forces of nature, such as volcanoes, in a new series.
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Plans for airports, energy and roads are facing multiple legal challenges over climate commitments.
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Next year will be slightly cooler thanks to La Niña, but will still be one of the hottest on record.
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The broadband network owned by UK taxpayers and an Indian conglomerate sends up 36 new satellites.
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The Treasury says taxes must rise or services cut to compensate for the loss of fuel tax income.
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Smoke from wildfires could be a surprising new route for the spread of microbes, experts believe.
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The huge iceberg clips the seafloor off South Georgia island and knocks off a sizeable fragment.
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A girl who died in 2013 has had air pollution listed as a cause of death; what are the implications?
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A forensic examination of the cargo reveals the devastation of populations caused by the trade.
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One task for the Austrian will be managing the interests of EU and non-EU states, such as the UK.
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Scientists find 156 new plants and fungi, including six new species of toadstool in British woodlands.
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China's increase in biodegradables is outpacing its ability to degrade plastic, warns Greenpeace.
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Engineers investigating the unexplained outages found they were caused by murmurations of starlings.
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A capsule lands in Inner Mongolia with the first lunar rock to be brought to Earth in 44 years.
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US start-up Capella is in the vanguard of companies changing the way satellites see the Earth.
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Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was "living on a knife edge" before her fatal asthma attack, the inquest heard.
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Good breeding conditions mean millions of people are now threatened in the Horn of Africa and Yemen.
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In a blow to campaigners, judges say ministers' decision to approve the runway was legitimate.
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Scientists in Japan open the Hayabusa-2 space capsule that landed just over a week ago.
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Experts are calling for greater surveillance of wildlife for the virus after the discovery in a wild mink.
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Scientists will send robotic vehicles under the colossal berg drifting in the South Atlantic.
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Scientists will keep a close eye on this variant to see if it is a better spreader than others.
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Plantations for palm oil are blamed for rainforest destruction, but an artificial palm oil is close.
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Tourists and scientists gathered at an observation site in Argentina to witness the total eclipse.
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The AI academic at the centre of a race row at Google speaks to BBC News.
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Officials will hold discussions with France's EDF about funding the Sizewell C project in Suffolk.
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UK minister Alok Sharma says world leaders are failing to show the necessary level of ambition.
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Sir Richard Branson's tourist rocket plane will make a first flight above its new spaceport home.
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A further 119 skulls of men, women and children are found near a famous Aztec temple in Mexico City.
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Lake sediments on remote Marion Island tell the story of the Southern Hemisphere's westerlies.
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The world has seen the biggest annual fall in CO2 emissions since World War Two, say researchers.
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The new Sentinel satellite to track global sea-level rise is in excellent shape, say space officials.