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UK sea temperatures soar after exceptionally warm spring

Thu, 05/22/2025 - 04:05
Sea temperatures in some areas off the UK and Ireland are 4C above average.
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'Shrinking Nemo': Smaller clownfish sound alarm on ocean heat

Wed, 05/21/2025 - 20:00
Fish made famous by the movie Finding Nemo are shrinking to cope with marine heatwaves.
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Solving the mystery of a dinosaur mass grave at the 'River of Death'

Mon, 05/19/2025 - 08:06
A group of researchers have come to Pipestone Creek in Canada to figure out why thousands of dinosaurs are buried here.
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Will this woman be the first Briton to walk on the Moon?

Wed, 05/14/2025 - 08:01
The BBC meets astronaut Rosemary Coogan who is training at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas.
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Soviet-era spacecraft 'likely' to have re-entered Earth's atmosphere

Sat, 05/10/2025 - 18:32
The spacecraft, which launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus, circled Earth for over five decades.
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Just Stop Oil was policed to extinction - now the movement has gone deeper underground

Fri, 04/25/2025 - 02:06
Climate activists may be going deeper underground.
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Just Stop Oil was policed to extinction - now the movement has gone deeper underground

Fri, 04/25/2025 - 02:06
Climate activists may be going deeper underground.
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Just Stop Oil was policed to extinction - now the movement has gone deeper underground

Fri, 04/25/2025 - 02:06
Climate activists may be going deeper underground.
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BBC Inside Science

Thu, 04/24/2025 - 21:00
Reaction to White House proposals to cut funding for Nasa and a future asteroid fly past
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Miliband urges global cooperation amid energy 'challenges'

Thu, 04/24/2025 - 13:50
The UK Energy Secretary was speaking at the opening of a two day summit on energy security.
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Miliband urges global cooperation amid energy 'challenges'

Thu, 04/24/2025 - 13:50
The UK Energy Secretary was speaking at the opening of a two day summit on energy security.
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Fingerprints of city-sized icebergs found off UK coast

Thu, 04/24/2025 - 12:00
Deep tracks gouged in the seafloor off the coast of Scotland could help us understand Antarctica today.
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Fingerprints of city-sized icebergs found off UK coast

Thu, 04/24/2025 - 12:00
Deep tracks gouged in the seafloor off the coast of Scotland could help us understand Antarctica today.
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Water firms admit sewage monitoring damaging public trust

Thu, 04/24/2025 - 04:09
The industry says powers to self-monitor water quality should be handed back to the regulator.
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Bites on gladiator bones prove combat with lion

Wed, 04/23/2025 - 21:01
Experts say the discovery provides the first physical evidence of gladiatorial combat with animals.
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Mystery of medieval cemetery near airport runway deepens

Wed, 04/23/2025 - 03:15
Skeletons and artefacts unearthed from the site near Cardiff Airport are baffling archaeologists.
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Mission to boldly grow food in space labs blasts off

Tue, 04/22/2025 - 03:58
The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.
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Canada's top candidates talk up fossil fuels as climate slips down agenda

Tue, 04/22/2025 - 02:16
Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.
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Canada's top candidates talk up fossil fuels as climate slips down agenda

Tue, 04/22/2025 - 02:16
Amid tariff threats from the US, energy and economic security are key issues in Canada's federal election.
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What is Earth Day and what has it achieved?

Mon, 04/21/2025 - 19:04
The worldwide event aims to raise awareness about the need to protect the environment.
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