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More than 4 million barrels of oil entered Gulf

First independent study shows US government got their sums right with estimate of 4.1 million barrels of oil

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Life

Chemical patterns on DNA mark out obesity genes

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The eight failures that caused the Gulf oil spill

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Forest carbon stores may be massively overestimated

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Arctic oil and gas drilling ready to take off

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Arctic oil and gas drilling ready to take off

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Why it's time for change at the IPCC

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Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse

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Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse

Opinion

Time to blame climate change for extreme weather?

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Time to blame climate change for extreme weather?

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Gulf spill: Is the oil lurking underwater?

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Gulf spill: Is the oil lurking underwater?

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Mystery of the Atlantic's missing plastic flotsam

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Mystery of the Atlantic's missing plastic flotsam

The amount of plastic floating in an ocean current system has been the same for decades, even though more and more plastic has probably been thrown away

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Dissolving your earthly remains will protect the Earth

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Race to save Pakistan's agriculture

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Fatal cloudburst devastates Himalayan desert town

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Health

Autism explosion half explained, half still a mystery

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