Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles
20 June 2018
There are low levels of cocaine and other drugs in many rivers, and lab studies suggest that European eels are suffering muscle damage as a result
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Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers
27 February 2018
The extreme warmth is likely to slow or prevent the formation of Arctic sea ice, which has been shrinking for decades due to climate change.
Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire
5 February 2018
Wooden tools are hardly ever preserved, but a cache found in Italy suggests Neanderthals made them with fire and used them to dig up foods like tubers
Tsunami warning for US west coast after magnitude-7.9 earthquake
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A tsunami alert was issued for the US west coast, and then cancelled, after a major earthquake struck at sea off the coast of Alaska
