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The play-on-words hashtag #Globalwarning has been viewed more than 24 million times by users of the app.

A major report says the West's high consumption of meat is fuelling global warming.

There's a growing fashion for fossils, but some argue it is undermining scientific research.

Atomik is made with grain and water from the abandoned area around the damaged nuclear power plant.

Natalie Christopher, 35, was last seen on Monday going for a run on the island of Ikaria.

Tiny animals called tardigrades are thought to have survived a crash-landing on the moon.

The parrot roamed New Zealand 19 million years ago, and may have been flightless and carnivorous.

Selling water from melted icebergs is big business on Canada's eastern coast, but there are concerns over Arctic warming.

Optical links will pull pictures and data from other spacecraft and then speed them to the ground.

It is hoped the footage from the Inner Hebrides will reinforce a case for conservation in the area.

An underwater temple in Thailand has emerged as water levels drop in a reservoir.

Impoverished African countries are the most food-insecure, stemming from climate change, says a charity.

July this year was the warmest month ever observed worldwide, satellite data has confirmed.

Scientists are poised to deliver a stark condemnation of the damage people are wreaking on Earth's land surface.

This Nairobi orphanage cares for elephants whose parents have often been killed by poachers.

The outbreak shows no signs of abating, so why is the roll-out of a second vaccine proving contentious?

Wildfires are raging in Siberia, Alaska, Greenland and Canada, many of them in the Arctic Circle. Why?

Russian artists want more urgent action to take place.

The whale was discovered where the river Leannan and Lough Swilly converge.

The heatwave that hit Europe last week was made more probable and more intense by human activities, say scientists.

Some drivers say there is not enough charging points to charge the vehicles.

There are fears that Skye's fossils of creatures from more than 165 million years ago are threatened by irresponsible collectors.

Preliminary figures suggest last month's global temperatures equalled or narrowly beat the previous record.

New research shows our galaxy, the Milky Way, is twisted and warped - not flat as previously thought.

Two patent filings seek to set a precedent by naming an AI as their inventor.

BBC Click's Spencer Kelly takes a ride in some of Nasa's latest vehicles.

The British-based land speed record team is heading to Northern Cape to conduct high-speed trials.

The patterns of warm and cold years in Britain are a clear signal of climate change, say scientists.

A southern white rhino has given birth after artificial insemination, raising hopes for the northern white rhino population.

Wildlife photographer Chase Dekker took the photos while whale watching in California.

Corrupt officials are forging documents to allow the wood to leave the country, environmentalists say.

Voracious Arion vulgaris slugs have spread across Europe from Spain and are major pests.

Genome sequencing projects around the world are revealing promising new health insights.

Malizia II, a high-speed yacht built to race around the world, will take the teen activist to the US.

Thursday's 38.7C in Cambridge is the hottest day ever recorded in the UK, the Met Office says.

More than 350 million trees have been planted in a single day to tackle deforestation, officials say.

Scientists are "extremely concerned" by a bacterium resistant to antibiotics of last resort.

Kiko Matthews, who cycled around the UK coast, says she collected 3.45 tonnes of rubbish from beaches.

Celeste Labedz's picture of herself dressed up as a princess while on a field trip researching glaciers has become a viral hit.

The semi-autonomous robot is able to use human tools and guide itself across difficult terrain.

Wellcome Trust chairwoman warns Boris Johnson that Britain will lose out if it "amputates" the EU.

The two-metre long femur is thought to have belonged to a sauropod from the late Jurassic era.

Chris Kraft, who founded Nasa's mission control, is honoured at the Proms after his death this week.

Tim Flannery, chief councillor of Climate Council Australia, warns about the pace of climate change.

Why Trump is selling plastic straws at $15 a pack - and using them as a stick to beat liberals with.

Plans for a powerful new telescope on a sacred site in Hawaii have created rifts among islanders.

India will fly robots to understand what weightlessness and radiation do to the human body in space.

The speed and extent of global warming exceeds any similar event in the past two millennia, researchers say.

Weather experts say a shift in the position of the jet stream is behind Europe's high temperatures.

Girls in Ethiopia are being given solar lamps to help stop child marriage and keep them in school.