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How do you transport a rhino from Germany to the UK?

Sun, 2019-01-20 10:03
Follow Najuma the black rhino as she is transported from Germany to a new home in Yorkshire.
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Swimming with biggest great white shark on record

Sat, 2019-01-19 10:04
Footage emerges of divers getting up close and personal with a massive great white shark.
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Saturn's spectacular rings are 'very young'

Fri, 2019-01-18 06:30
One of the most distinctive features in the Solar System is no more than 100 million years old.
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Swimming with sharks

Fri, 2019-01-18 02:21
The shark, believed to be one known as Deep Blue, weighs 2.5 tonnes and is nearly 20ft long.
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Climate change: Is nuclear power the answer?

Fri, 2019-01-18 01:57
How green is nuclear power and what are the other options?
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The coffees you've never heard of which face extinction

Thu, 2019-01-17 10:41
Of 124 coffees in the world, we only drink two, but we need to protect all of them, say scientists.
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Giant ice disk appears in Presumpscot River, Westbrook

Wed, 2019-01-16 23:00
The approximately 91m (298ft) wide frozen slab formed naturally and has been slowly spinning.
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Cairns catastrophe

Wed, 2019-01-16 08:22
Two months ago, a record-breaking heatwave devastated Australia's population of spectacled flying foxes.
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World's loneliest frog finds a possible mate

Wed, 2019-01-16 00:45
The world's loneliest frog, known as Romeo, finds friends (and a possible date) after water frogs found in the wild.
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World's 'loneliest' frog gets a date

Wed, 2019-01-16 00:02
Scientists find a Juliet for water frog, Romeo, once thought to be the last of his kind in the world.
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Cern plans even larger hadron collider for physics search

Wed, 2019-01-16 00:01
The Future Circular Collider could be Europe's £20bn successor to the existing Large Hadron Collider.
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China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout

Tue, 2019-01-15 21:08
The seeds, inside a sealed container, are the first plants ever grown on the Moon's surface.
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Concerns over increase in toxic brine from desalination plants

Tue, 2019-01-15 01:39
Operations to extract fresh water from the sea are now producing 50% more of this salty effluent than expected.
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Watch how air pollution moves across Europe

Mon, 2019-01-14 23:26
See an animation showing the concentration and movement of nitrogen dioxide through the atmosphere.
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Government promises 'bold new goal' to tackle dirty air

Mon, 2019-01-14 10:34
Ministers hail the UK's "world leading" pollution plan, but green groups call it a missed opportunity.
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James Watson: Scientist loses titles after claims over race

Mon, 2019-01-14 01:28
Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has repeated remarks about race and intelligence.
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Guardian switches to potato starch wrapping

Mon, 2019-01-14 01:17
Readers, who pressed for the change, can compost or put the new packaging in their food waste bin.
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The women fighting fast fashion waste

Sun, 2019-01-13 10:02
Claire and Emily run a hub that empowers people to turn their old clothes into new ones.
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Mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah dies aged 89

Sat, 2019-01-12 22:38
The former Cambridge professor had received the highest honour in his subject - a Fields Medal.
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Spektr-R: Russia's only space telescope 'not responding'

Sat, 2019-01-12 22:17
Spektr-R has stopped receiving commands from Earth, Russian astrophysicists say.
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