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Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

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Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

A strange discovery, made by polar explorer Robert Scott a century ago, might explain how complex life survived when the planet froze over into “Snowball Earth”

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Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them

Earth

Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them

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Huge Australian bushfire was caused by unseasonal freak weather

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Huge Australian bushfire was caused by unseasonal freak weather

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Bottled water in a factory

Health

Bottled water is bad – but microplastics aren’t the reason

Analysis

A researcher pointing at seismograph readings recorded from a massive quake near Sumatra's in 2005.

Technology

Earthquake AI makes it easier to predict devastation of strikes

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These searing hot chilli peppers are in danger thanks to snakes

Earth

These searing hot chilli peppers are in danger thanks to snakes

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carbon artwork

Earth

How concrete and condoms could turn a greenhouse gas green

Features

US climate report warns nation will lose out if it doesn't act

Earth

US climate report warns nation will lose out if it doesn't act

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Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

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Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

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Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies

Life

Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies

Wild leopards wander into the Indian city of Mumbai to prey on feral dogs – and in doing so they stop the dogs biting people and passing on the rabies virus

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Earth

Parts of San Francisco are sinking faster than the sea is rising

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Earth

Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers

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Earth

North Atlantic right whales didn't have a single calf this year

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Earth

Green is the new black: Redesigning clothes to save the planet

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