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Aeolus: Wind-mapping space laser is losing power

Tue, 2019-05-14 01:16
Europe's Aeolus spacecraft is gathering fantastic new data on global winds - but it's also got a problem.
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Mariana Trench: Record-breaking journey to the bottom of the ocean

Tue, 2019-05-14 00:24
Victor Vescovo descended almost 11km in a submersible to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.
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Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag

Tue, 2019-05-14 00:00
An American explorer finds plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.
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Faroe Islands 'close down' as tourists fly in to repair them

Mon, 2019-05-13 09:06
The Faroe Islands declared themselves shut down as foreign volunteers came to take part in sustainable tourism.
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Apollo Moon landing: The 13 minutes that defined a century

Mon, 2019-05-13 08:35
The Apollo 11 landing: What did it take to pull off one of the greatest achievements in human history?
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Political will to fight climate change is fading, warns UN chief

Sun, 2019-05-12 20:55
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges world leaders to follow science advice on climate change.
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Stranded baby elephant rescued from lake

Sun, 2019-05-12 09:32
Officials in north-east India guided an elephant calf to safety, after it became separated from its mother.
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Climate change 'may curb growth in UK flying'

Sat, 2019-05-11 09:40
The UK may need to review expansion of aviation to meet CO2 targets, the government admits.
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How do you learn to drive on Mars?

Sat, 2019-05-11 07:56
Engineers are making sure their joint European-Russian rover will perform as expected on the Red Planet.
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Israel probes Golan Heights mass vulture poisoning

Sat, 2019-05-11 00:55
The killings wipe out half the vulture population in the Israeli-occupied territory.
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Endangered kakapo parrot gets pioneering brain surgery

Fri, 2019-05-10 23:09
The procedure is a world-first amid efforts to save the species, native to New Zealand.
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Europe 'takes too much of Earth resources'

Fri, 2019-05-10 21:12
Europeans are emitting too much carbon and using too much food and timber, a report says.
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Climate change: How frogs could vanish from ponds

Fri, 2019-05-10 15:13
Climate change is having an impact on British wildlife, say scientists mapping a deadly frog disease.
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Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth's climate

Fri, 2019-05-10 15:00
Researchers plans for new centre to explore refreezing the poles, sucking out CO2 and ocean greening.
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Jeff Bezos unveils Moon lander concept

Fri, 2019-05-10 10:42
Blue Origins claims that the lunar lander will be able to take humans to the Moon's south pole by 2024.
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The elite soldiers protecting the Amazon rainforest

Fri, 2019-05-10 09:27
The Amazon is at risk from mining in French Guiana and it is the French Foreign Legion's job to protect it.
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Autonomous boat makes oyster run

Thu, 2019-05-09 22:42
A shellfish consignment is carried across the busy North Sea by an Uncrewed Surface Vessel.
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Southend burial site 'UK's answer to Tutankhamun'

Thu, 2019-05-09 17:48
An Anglo-Saxon royal whose tomb was found next to a road in 2003 may have finally been identified.
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Climate change: UK flood planners 'must prepare for worst'

Thu, 2019-05-09 12:00
At least £1bn a year needs to be spent on defences and some communities may have to move, a report warns.
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Climate change: Half world's biggest airlines don't offer carbon offsetting

Thu, 2019-05-09 10:50
Half the world's biggest airlines are not giving flyers the opportunity to offset the CO2 from their flights.
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