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Boaty McBoatface returns home from abyss
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Biodegradable cleaning products and eco-friendly plastics from mushroom waste
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Climate change impacts Antarctic biodiversity habitat
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The value of nature
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Calculating ‘old’ and ‘new’ water runoff
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Watts in the water.
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Researchers found they could hack entire wind farms.
On a sunny day last summer, in the middle of a vast cornfield somewhere in the large, windy middle of America, two researchers from...
How climate change could affect your homeowners insurance coverage.
Homeowners insurance companies are increasingly in the crosshairs of extreme weather that has been associated with climate change, and their losses from resulting damage...
Violence spreads ahead of election in drought-hit Kenya.
A racially-charged conflict between private landowners and nomadic herders in the drought-stricken county of Laikipia, Kenya, has spread to affect indigenous forest-dwellers.Water shortage is driving Maasai pastoralists...
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